Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee 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.

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

3. PJM Manuals (9:15-9:30)

Manual 3A: Energy Management System (EMS) Model Updates and Quality Assurance (QA)

Reason for Changes: General update.

Impacts: Updates contact information; definitions; Adds model validation and benchmark tests in response to FERC audit finding 13.

Manual 14A: Generation and Transmission Interconnection Process

Reason for Changes: PJM/MISO JCM update.

Impacts: Defines times when interconnection request information will be exchanged and studied; Reinforces JOA requirements to impose the applicable study criteria; Describes Transmission Service Request studies to be performed.

Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting

Reason for Changes: Section 5 – ER13-2413; Section 6 – Docket #ER14-297.

Impact: Changes section 6.3 to increase penalties for resources that fail to provide assigned amounts of Tier 2 Synchronized Reserve. Changes section 5.2.6 to clarify the requirements that must be satisfied in order for wind resources to be eligible to receive Lost Opportunity Cost (LOC) credits.

4. ENERGY MARKET UPLIFT TASK FORCE (EMUSTF) (9:30-9:40)

Members will be asked to approve revisions to the Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force charter. The MRC created EMUSTF May 30 to develop ways to minimize energy market up-lift charges and methodologies for allocating make-whole payments (See MRC Approvals 5/30/13.)

The proposed changes would incorporate into the charter the scope originally assigned to an MIC subgroup on Day-Ahead Reliability and Reactive Cost Allocation (DARRCA). The DARRCA group met nine times from December 2012 through October 2013 and was creating solution packages when it decided to combine the issues of the group into EMUSTF.