Below is a summary of 11 new recommendations resulting from PJM’s final report on the September 2013 heat wave. This is in addition to 11 recommendations made immediately after the events of Sept. 9-11. (See Big To-Do List from September Heat Wave.)

• Update PJM’s documentation for modeling process and practices to include Transmission Owners’ input to PJM modeling process and a plan for implementing more modeling and telemetry across the transmission and sub-transmission system.
• Identify behind–the-meter generators and incorporate them into emergency operations.
• Develop rules for logging local shed events into the Emergency Procedures application and conduct training to reinforce usage.
• Review and modify how EMS handles nonconvergences; automate cascading outage analysis; provide filtering on Emergency Procedure application.
• Define more DR subzones proactively and map DR resources to nearest substation to improve the reliability of using DR to relieve transmission constraints.
• Develop tools to aid dispatchers in visualization of the location and MW relief from DR.
• Improve processes during hot and cold weather alerts; review process of handling notification of load forecast errors; create documentation and training that better explains to the Master Coordinators what information to look at when these days are forecasted.
• Reconsider current methods for sampling and weighting of weather data throughout the RTO footprint; consider developing load forecasts on a sub zonal basis.
• Develop a process for validating generator performance data (EcoMax, emergency max, spin max, etc.).
• Improve the generation sorting functionality in the Dispatcher Management Tool. Available and max emergency units should be included on the normal sort. Max Emergency units should be flagged for easy identification.
• Provide reinforcement training for operators on contingency management (contingency trending, PCLLRW, load shed, etc.) in the control room simulator. Use this training to look for EMS enhancements for managing constraints.