Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage in RTO Insider. NOTE: After the meetings, Independent Market Monitor Joe Bowring will provide a briefing on the 2017 State of the Market Report.

RTO Insider will be in Wilmington, Del., covering the discussions and votes. See next Tuesday’s newsletter for a full report.

(There appears to be an error in PJM’s post-ed agenda for the MRC. The times for Items 3 and 4 overlap.)

Markets and Reliability Committee

2. PJM Manuals (9:10-9:40)

Members will be asked to endorse the following proposed manual changes:

A. Manual 1: Control Center and Data Exchange Requirements. The revisions were developed as part of a periodic review and encompass real-time system monitoring and communication requirements, including external resources.

B. Manual 3A: Energy Management System (EMS) Model Updates and Quality Assurance (QA). The revisions were developed to implement new NERC standards for transmission owners to monitor and report the quality of their real-time assessments in intervals of at most 30 minutes.

C. Manual 14A: New Services Request Process and Manual 14E: Additional Information for Upgrade and Transmission Interconnection Projects. Revisions developed to implement previously approved revisions to PJM’s transmission service and upgrade requests. (See “Transmission Issues,” PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Feb. 8, 2018.)

D. Manual 33: Administrative Services for PJM Interconnection Agreement. Revisions developed as part of a comprehensive periodic review to clarify and streamline language.

E. Manual 37: Reliability Coordination. Revisions developed to clarify language and simplify references to NERC standards.

3. Energy Price Formation Senior Task Force (EPFSTF) (9:40-10:15)

Members will be asked to endorse a proposed charter for the EPFSTF and proposed revisions to the energy price-formation issue charge related to development of a real-time, 30-minute reserve product. (See “30-Minute Reserves,” PJM Operating Committee Briefs: March 6, 2018.)

4. Tariff Revisions to Address Overlapping Congestion (9:30-9:45)

Members will be asked to endorse Tariff and Operating Agreement revisions to address overlapping congestion. A vote on the proposal was held over from February’s MRC meeting to address concerns about cancellation of certain market-to-market payments. (See “Overlapping Congestion,” PJM Markets and Reliability Committee Briefs: Feb. 22, 2018.)

Members Committee

1. Tariff and Operating Agreement Revisions to Address Overlapping Congestion (1:10-1:30)

Members will be asked to endorse proposed Tariff and Operating Agreement revisions to address overlapping congestion. (See MRC Item 4 above.)

— Rory D. Sweeney