The Markets and Reliability and Members committees approved the following measures with little or no discussion last week:

Markets and Reliability Committee

• Changes to Manual 14A: Generation and Transmission Interconnection Process, which updated Attachments F & G. These attachments list wind turbine models that do not need to be reviewed by PJM prior to submission of system impact and generation interconnection feasibility studies. Units listed reflect those PJM has modeled in the past.
• Revisions to PJM’s Tariff and Operating Agreement to update the list of agreements and transmission service transactions to which PJM Settlement, Inc. is not a part.
• Operating Agreement and Tariff revisions in preparation for eSuite application name changes. These revisions include changing eSchedule and Enhanced Energy Schedule (EES) to InSchedule and ExSchedule, respectively, in the documents. This is part of a larger refresh of eSuite tools, which will occur in stages through the end of the year. (See PJM Updating eSuite Apps.)
• Updates to the Regional Transmission and Energy Scheduling Practices for the deployment of ExSchedule. The changes remove ramp reservation and tag timing requirements based on schedule duration. These changes were requested in part due to the new Coordinated Transaction Scheduling (CTS) between PJM and NYISO, which aims to reduce uneconomic flows between the RTOs. (See NYISO Scheduling Product Wins FERC OK.)
• Changes to accelerate the schedule of the triennial review of the Cost of New Entry (CONE) by two months. The change, which was also approved by the Members Committee, will move the deadline for staff recommendations to May 15 from July 15 and the projected FERC filing to Oct. 1 from Dec. 1. The CONE review will be conducted every four years beginning with the 2018/2019 Delivery Year.

Members Committee

• Tariff revisions associated with CTS and export transactions. The key change is the addition of a provision stating that export transaction screening will not apply to emergency transactions between PJM and neighboring balancing authorities.
• Tariff changes to add a transition mechanism to protect generators whose installed capacity ratings are reduced by seasonal verification tests. (See Transition Period OKd for Seasonal Verification Rules.)