Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees meetings 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 proposed manual changes:

A. Manual 22: Generator Resource Performance. Revisions developed as part of a periodic review of the manual.

B. Manual 27: Open Access Transmission Tariff Accounting and Manual 13: Emergency Operations. Revisions will add Mid-Atlantic Interstate Transmission Co. as a transmission owner in PJM. MAIT is a new subsidiary of FirstEnergy that owns and operates the company’s transmission assets in the Met-Ed and Penelec utility territories. (See NJ Opposition Derails FirstEnergy’s Tx Reorganization — but not Projects.)

3. FERC Order 825 – Shortage Pricing (9:30-9:50)

Members will be asked to endorse the proposed shortage pricing and operating reserve demand curve solution and associated manual revisions. (See “Order 825 Implementation Moves Forward,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

4. Transmission Substation Equipment in FERC Order 1000 (9:50-10:05)

Members will be asked to endorse proposed a Regional Transmission Expansion Plan process changes related to the treatment of transmission substation equipment under FERC Order 1000, and associated Operating Agreement revisions. (See “Endorsements Sail Through by acclamation,” PJM Planning Committee and TEAC Briefs.)

5. Draft Pseudo-Tie Agreements (10:05-10:20)

Members will be asked to endorse a pro forma pseudo-tie agreement and a reimbursement agreement for pseudo-ties into PJM, along with related Tariff and Operating Agreement revisions. (See “Committee Endorsements,” PJM Operating Committee Briefs.)

6. Replacement Capacity (10:20-10:40)

Members will be asked to endorse a proposed problem statement and issue charge regarding procurement of replacement capacity in the Incremental Auctions. (See “PJM Has No Objection to IMM’s ‘Paper Capacity’ Report,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)

Members Committee

Consent Agenda (1:20-1:25)

Members will be asked to endorse:

B. Tariff, Operating Agreement and Reliability Assurance Agreement revisions to clean up definitions.

C. Revisions to the PJM Tariff regarding operating parameters.

1. Transmission Substation Equipment in FERC Order 1000 (1:25-1:45)

Members will be asked to endorse changes to RTEP processes. See MRC item 4, above.

2. Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force (EMUSTF) (1:45-2:15)

Members will be asked to endorse proposed Phase 1 and Phase 2 proposals endorsed by the MRC in January. (See “Work on Uplift Moves Forward Despite NOPR,” PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committees Briefs.)

– Rory D. Sweeney