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.

Markets and Reliability Committee

2. PJM Manuals (9:40-10:00)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

• Manual 19: Load Forecasting and Analysis — Makes change to residential measurement and verification rules approved in November. Provides a solution for the issue that some electric distribution companies (EDCs) are prohibited from sharing personally identifiable information about residential customers participating in demand response programs. EDCs may use unique ID numbers instead.
• Manual 03: Transmission Operations — Requires a separation between emergency and load dump ratings. In the event they are the same, the emergency rating submitted by the transmission owner shall be, at a minimum, 3% lower than the load dump rating. If this change results in a normal rating that is higher than the long-term emergency (LTE) rating, the TO shall, at a minimum, make the normal rating equal to the LTE rating.
• Manual 3A: Energy Management System Model Updates and Quality Assurance — Continues effort to streamline sections regarding model updates. Most significant change is new section on sub-transmission model submission requirements. Appendix A revised to clarify business rules and tool interaction.

3. CAPACITY PERFORMANCE (10:00-11:30)

Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market — Changes introduce new Capacity Performance products; outline transition; address resource adequacy and demand in the Reliability Pricing Model; describe supply resources in the RPM; explain demand resource requirements and RPM auction credit rates; outline the CP must-offer requirement; address intermittent and capacity storage resource sell offers; describe resource performance assessments, non-performance assessments and expected performance vs. actual performance; outline fixed resource requirement alternative; and review CP transitional Incremental Auctions. Members will be asked to endorse changes so PJM may complete its compliance filing, due July 9 to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (See related story, PJM Stakeholders Rush to Figure out What’s Changing for the BRA.)

— Suzanne Herel