The Markets and Reliability Committee gave final approvals to the following manual revisions at their meeting this past Thursday.

• Electronic Notifications for Curtailment Service Providers: Changes to Man­u­als 1 and 18 will imple­ment an auto­mated process that will allow Cur­tail­ment Service Providers to pro­vide oper­a­tional data to — and receive dis­patch instruc­tions from — PJM. The new Load Response System (eLRS) process replaces the current manual methods, which rely on email and spreadsheets.

See “Manual Changes to Implement Electronic Notification System.”

• Resid­ual Zone Pric­ing: Resid­ual Zone Pric­ing will replace phys­i­cal zone LMPs for real-time load effec­tive June 1, 2015. A Resid­ual Zone is an aggre­gate of all load buses in the phys­i­cal zone, exclud­ing load priced at nodal locations. The change was endorsed by the Mem­bers Com­mit­tee in Feb­ru­ary 2012 and approved by FERC in Docket ER13-347.

See “Manual, Tariff Changes: Residual Zones, EKPC, Loss of Internet, Regulation Market.”

• East Ken­tucky Power Coop­er­a­tive: PJM needs to add the East Ken­tucky Power Coop­er­ative zone into PJM mar­kets man­u­als to accommodate the coop’s inte­gra­tion into PJM, effec­tive June 1.

See “Manual, Tariff Changes: Residual Zones, EKPC, Loss of Internet, Regulation Market.”

• NERC Reliability Standards: PJM needs to amend M-36: System Restoration to reflect NERC Standards EOP-005-2 (System Restoration Plans) and EOP-006-2 (Reliability Coordination – System Restoration).  Updates for consistency with other RTOs; updates underfrequency load shed tables; incorporates recommendations from RFC/SERC audit, and adds specific references to transmission operator restoration plans.
• Manual 03A:  Energy Management System (EMS) Model Updates and Quality Assurance: The changes include numerous edits for updates and clarity.

See “Manual 03: Transmission Operations.”

• Regulation Market Cost-Based Offers:  New rules imple­mented in Octo­ber require reg­u­la­tion offers to include capa­bil­ity (cost, in $/MWh to reserve a resource for reg­u­la­tion) and per­for­mance (costs of track­ing the reg­u­la­tion sig­nal in miles/MW).  Pre­vi­ous rules, as defined in Man­ual 15, did not include per­for­mance costs.

See “Manual, Tariff Changes: Residual Zones, EKPC, Loss of Internet, Regulation Market.”

• Manual 35: Definitions and Acronyms: Adds language to Economic Maximum and Economic Minimum definitions; changed Operations Analysis Working Group to Operations Assessment Working Group; Replaced TTV4TF (TO/TOP Version 4 Task Force) with TTMS (TO/TOP Matrix Subcommittee).
• NERC standard PRC-023-2: Updates to Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process are required to implement standard PRC-023-2 (Transmission Relay Loadability). PJM annually develops a transmission facility list to comply with NERC criteria.
• Manual 03: Transmission Operations: Semi-annual update to incorporate procedural changes.