Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees 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, Del., 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:

1. Manual 1: Control Center and Data Exchange Requirements. Adds new section for planning, coordination and notification of system changes and events, with updated procedures. New Attachment C is the new Inter-control Center Communication Protocol (ICCP) failover test plans diagram. Removes references to the PJM ICCP network interface control document and PJM ICCP communications workbook.
2. Manual 6: Financial Transmission Rights. Housekeeping changes resulting from annual review. Clarifications better describe existing rules and processes.
3. Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services. Changes implement Capacity Performance rules regarding unit-specific parameters. For base capacity resources, the status quo remains until 2018. For CP resources, beginning in delivery year 2016, unit-specific parameters will apply during hot weather alerts, cold weather alerts, emergency actions and when being offer-capped to maintain system reliability.
4. Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations. Revisions reflect day-ahead market timeline changes. Among them: effective Friday, the deadline for submitting day-ahead bids will be 10:30 a.m. The day-ahead clearing window will be reduced to three hours. The deadline for posting day-ahead results will be 1:30 p.m. or as soon as practicable. Results will be posted upon approval but not before noon.

3. Confidential Market Data Postings (9:30-9:45)

Manual 33: Administrative Services for PJM Interconnection Agreement. Changes provide six exceptions for when PJM may release market data. (See “Market Data Confidentiality Rule Change Gets First Reading,” Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

4. Operating Parameter Definitions (9:45-10:15)

Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations; Manual 15: Cost Development Guidelines; and Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting. Revisions define operating parameters. (See “Operating Parameter Definitions Approved,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

5. Performance Assessment Hour Ramp Rate (10:15-10:45)

Revisions to Tariff and Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market offer an interim solution to the performance assessment hour ramp rate.  (See “Ramp Rate for CP Approved,” PJM Operating Committee Briefs.)

6. Regional Transmission and Energy Scheduling Practices (10:45-10:55)

Proposed revisions to regional transmission and energy scheduling practices reflect PJM’s adjustment to its day-ahead energy market timeline.  (See “Day-ahead Submission Deadline Moved up,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

7. Governing Documents Enhancement & Clarification Subcommittee (GDECS) (10:45-11:05)

1. Members will be asked to approve updated definitions and clarifications to PJM’s governing documents. They involve the terms PJM board, market participant, credit breach, PJM region, regional entity, affiliate, PJM markets, economic minimum and transmission customer.

Members Committee

CONSENT AGENDA (1:20-1:25)

1. Members will be asked to approve revisions to governing documents related to updated definitions developed by the GDECS.

ENDORSEMENTS (1:25-1:55)

1. GOVERNING DOCUMENTS ENHANCEMENT & CLARIFICATION SUBCOMMITTEE (GDECS) (1:25-1:35)

2. Members will consider proposed changes to governing documents as well as additional clarifications to previously endorsed revisions.
3. Members will be asked to endorse Tariff and Operating Agreement revisions regarding the definition of the term counterparty. In an Aug. 27 Members Committee vote, the word counterparty was removed from a batch of proposed definitions and returned to the GDECS for further review at members’ request. The definition was aligned to use more precise language in the OA that specifies when PJMSettlement will and will not be a counterparty to a transaction or agreement.

4. CAPACITY PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTATION (1:35-1:45)

See MRC item 5 above.

3. OPERATING PARAMETER DEFINITIONS (1:45-1:55)

See MRC item 4 above.