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

2. PJM Manuals (9:10-9:40)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

1. Manual 02: Transmission Service Request — Changes aim to clarify and more accurately describe the Available Transfer Capability (ATC) processes and the Initial Study process for long-term firm transmission service requests. They include a grammatical cleanup; updated references to the Joint Operating Agreement; and links to the deliverability analysis in Manual14A and Manual 14B.
2. Manual 14A: Generation and Transmission Interconnection Process — Adds Feasibility Study data form and Impact Study data form.
3. Manual 14B: PJM Regional Transmission Planning Process — Updated to reflect existing long-term deliverability analysis procedures and cleanup language regarding voltage drop analyses, generator deliverability analyses, load deliverability analyses and cost allocation.
4. Manual 40: Training and Certifications Requirements — Revisions resulting from the annual review required by North American Electric Reliability Corp. standard PER-005-2; includes a new section on training of operations support personnel.

3. PJM/MISO Coordinated transaction scheduling (9:40-10:00)

Members will be asked to approve the proposed PJM-MISO Coordinated Transaction Scheduling (CTS) product, which is intended to reduce uneconomic trading across the RTOs’ seam. (See PJM, MISO Reach Agreement on New Interchange Product.)

— Suzanne Herel