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

PJM Manuals (9:10-10:00)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

1. Manual 7: Protection Standards. Clarifications were recommended by the Relay Subcommittee as part of its biennial review of the manual.
2. Manual 10: Pre-Scheduling Operations. Changes make clear that reporting rules for all outages apply to both capacity and energy resources.
3. Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations. Conforming changes align with Manual 12: Balancing Operations (rev. 34), adding attachment F.
4. Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process. Critical Energy Infrastructure Information section of the introduction is replaced.
5. Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process. Updates light load and winter peak reliability analyses to align with current practices, among other updates.
6. Manual 14C: Generation and Transmission Interconnection Facility Construction. Revisions support the inclusion of Order 1000 processes.
7. Manual 15: Cost Development Guidelines. Clarifications are the result of a periodic review. Adds Tariff-approved language regarding pumped storage hydro units.
8. Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market. Changes are the result of a periodic review; conforming changes relate to Capacity Performance and the “deploy all resources” action.
9. Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting. New details and clarifications are the result of a periodic review.

PLS Exception Process (10:00-10:30)

The committee will be asked to endorse changes to make the parameter-limited schedule exception process more flexible. (See “More Flexible Parameter Limited Exception Process Approved,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

Members Committee

Consent Agenda (1:20-1:25)

Members will be asked to approve Tariff revisions recommended by the Earlier Queue Submittal Task Force. (See “Stricter Standards OK’d for Project Queue Submittal,” PJM Markets and Reliability Committee Briefs.)

ENDORSEMENTS

Finance Committee Election (1:25-1:30)

Members will be asked to elect Gary Greiner of Public Service Enterprise Group as a Transmission Owner sector representative. He will take the place of PSEG’s Frank Czigler, who has left the company.