November 21, 2024

June 2013

MRC/MC Meeting Previews
Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee meetings Thursday, 6/27.
Billions Needed to Bring Offshore Wind to PJM
Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending. Lines on shore also will have to be upgraded or built.
Leasing the Ocean for Power
The Interior Department Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees development of the nation’s wind energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The Siren Song of Offshore Wind
PJM Insider's Issue Brief reviews offshore wind efforts in total and by state; suggesting that offshore wind’s environmental and economic development potential requires changes in federal policy and billions more than PJM's states have committed to date.
Ohio Leads in Great Lakes
It isn’t only PJM’s Atlantic states that see promise in offshore wind. The Great Lakes also offer strong winds, along with their own unique challenges — winter ice, opposition from tourist towns, and in Pennsylvania, development restrictions put into law by casino opponents.
PJM States Seek ‘First Mover’ Status
PJM's Atlantic states are ideally located to pursue offshore wind, with shallow coasts similar to Europe, where utility-scale offshore wind is 10+ years old
FERC Likely to Increase Pressure on PJM-MISO Joint Market Talks
FERC signaled today that it will increase its scrutiny of the PJM-MISO Joint Common Market process amid complaints that PJM is improperly limiting MISO generation in its capacity market.
Gas Dispatch Reduces Congestion: Market Efficiency Study
PJM's 2013 Market Efficiency Study revealed that an increase in the dispatch of gas-fired units in east PJM reduced west to east congestion in PJM.
PJM: We’ll Sue
PJM Threatens to Sue PJM Insider for Trademark Infringement.
Alternative Wind Capacity Calculations Yield Murky Results
PJM PC Heard Proposals to eliminate the impact of curtailments on wind generators’ capacity calculations; creating losers and winners.

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