Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM 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 Tuesday’s newsletter for a full report.

Markets and Reliability Committee

2. PJM Manuals (9:10-9:30)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

A. Manual 10: Pre-Scheduling Operations — This update, an annual review, includes a new section highlighting the criticality of reporting outages on facilities providing black start service.

B. Manual 14D: Generator Operational Requirements — Modified to provide consistency with revised North American Electric Reliability Corp. standard VAR-002-3, effective Oct. 1, 2014. Sections 7.1.2 and 7.3.4 contain revisions regarding notifications of status changes on automatic voltage regulators, power system stabilizers and reactive capability.

C. Manual 01: Control Center and Data Exchange Requirements — Addition to Section 3.2.4 regarding user agreements related to purchase of PJMnet connections.

3. Zonal and Residual Metered Load Aggregates (9:30-9:45)

Members will be asked to approve Tariff revisions related to data availability for the bus distribution factors for zonal and residual metered load aggregates utilized by the day-ahead energy market. If there are technical problems that prevent PJM from obtaining the load distribution factors from the snapshot one week prior to the operating day, the load distribution factors from the most recently available day of the week that the operating day falls on will be used.

4. Harmonization of PJM’s Governing Documents (9:45-10:00)

Members will vote on a proposed problem statement and issue charge related to ensuring PJM’s Operating Agreement, Tariff and Reliability Assurance Agreement are consistent in their definitions. (See Task Force Proposed to Resolve Inconsistencies in PJM Governing Documents.)

5. Enhanced Inverter Capability (10:00-10:15)

The committee will be asked to approve Tariff and manual revisions related to enhanced inverter capabilities. The new rules will apply to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission jurisdictional inverter-based generators defined as asynchronous generation that have an Interconnection Service Agreement or a Wholesale Market Participation Agreement. The changes will not affect merchant transmission facilities, HVDC inverter-converter facilities or existing generation. (See Enhanced Inverters Clear MRC.)