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 (9:10-9:40)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

A. Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations for the Day-Ahead Scheduling Reserve. Adds language excluding resources from the day-ahead scheduling reserve process that cannot reliably fulfill obligations in real time.

B. Manual 14C: Generation and Transmission Interconnection Facility Construction. Changes are to support the inclusion of Order 1000 processes. Since the first reading, the new tie line section has been removed.

C. Manual 20: PJM Resource Adequacy Analysis. Updates are the result of a periodic review.

D. Manual 29: Billing. Clarifications and updates are the result of a regular review.

3. Underperformance Risk Management Sr. Task Force (URMSTF) Charter (9:40-9:55)

The charter reflects two issue charges: The group will seek to develop ways that Capacity Performance resources can manage their risk during performance assessment hours. It also will look to better align the requirements for internal and external resources. (See “Charter for Underperformance Risk Management Senior Task Force Presented,” PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committees Briefs.)

4. Auction-specific Bilateral Transactions (9:55-10:10)

Proposed changes ensure the physicality of an auction-specific bilateral transaction. (See “Members OK Clarifications to Preserve ‘Physicality’ of Auction-specific Bilateral Transactions,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

5. FERC Order 825 (10:10-10:40)

Members will be asked to approve a problem statement and issue charge related to the recent FERC Order 825, which requires RTOs to align their settlement and dispatch intervals and implement shortage pricing during any shortage period. (See “Members Prepped for Problem Statement on Settlement Intervals, Shortage Pricing,” PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committee Briefs.)

6. Non-Performance Assessment Charge Rate

David “Scarp” Scarpignato, on behalf of Calpine and the Independent Market Monitor, will present a problem statement and issue charge related to the calculation of the CP nonperformance charge rate. The problem statement maintains that the performance assessment hour number used in the charge rate does not reflect the expected number of PAHs as intended. The issue would be worked in special Market Implementation Committee sessions with the aim of bringing proposals to the MRC for implementation in the 2017 Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2020/21.

Members Committee

Consent Agenda (1:20-1:25)

Members will be asked to approve operating agreement and Tariff language giving more flexibility to the parameter-limited schedule exception process. (See “More Flexible PLS Process Approved,” PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committees Briefs.)