Constraints that can be quickly and cheaply resolved would be included in the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) under a proposal given first reading at the Markets and Reliability Committee meeting Thursday.

PJM will ask MRC at its next meeting to endorse Tariff revisions allowing the RTO to add “easily resolved constraints” to the RTEP.

Before posting the planning parameters for each Base Residual Auction, PJM staff would be required to identify Locational Deliverability Areas in which the Capacity Emergency Transfer Limit is less than 1.15 times the Capacity Emergency Transfer Objective. Upgrades that raise the ratio above 115% would be added to the RTEP if they:

• Cost less than $5 million;
• Can be completed within 36 months or prior to June 1 of the Delivery Year; and
• Does not duplicate customer-funded upgrades already in the transmission queue (e.g., one whose cost is assigned to an interconnection customer).

The proposal was approved easily in a vote by the Capacity Senior Task Force.