Below is a summary of the agenda items scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee meeting Wednesday. 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 covering the discussions and votes. See next Tuesday’s newsletter for a full report.

Markets and Reliability Committee

Consent Agenda (9:05-9:10)

B. Stakeholders will be asked to endorse proposed revisions to Manual 3: Transmission Operations resulting from a periodic review. The changes include updating stability limitation process language in accordance with FERC docket ER21-1802 and aligning language with the current TO/TOP matrix language.

C. The committee will be asked to endorse proposed revisions to Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations, Manual 12: Balancing Operations and Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting addressing conforming changes for stability limits in markets and operations. FERC ruled in February that PJM has the right to refuse lost opportunity cost payments to generators that are temporarily required to limit output to prevent loss of synchronization and additional strain on the system during transmission outages. (See FERC: PJM Right to Block Gen Stability Limit Payments.)

D. Members will be asked to endorse proposed revisions to Manual 21A: Determination of Accredited UCAP Using Effective Load Carrying Capability Analysis addressing an effective load-carrying capability model run timing update. PJM rules allow voluntary submission of unit-specific wind and solar parameters for development of backcasts for newer resources, but current manual language has an expiration date of March 1 for voluntary submissions. The quick fix would remove the March 1 expiration date.

E. Stakeholders will be asked to endorse proposed revisions to Manual 36: System Restoration resulting from a periodic review. The minor changes include replacing System Restoration Coordinators Subcommittee with System Operations Subcommittee and updating the under-frequency load shed table with new data.

Endorsements (9:10-10:20)

1. Start-up Cost Offer Development (9:10-9:30)

The committee will be asked to endorse a revised PJM/Independent Market Monitor proposal addressing start-up cost offer development worked on through the Cost Development Subcommittee, including revisions to the tariff, Operating Agreement and Manual 15: Cost Development Guidelines. Stakeholders endorsed the proposal at the Market Implementation Committee’s meeting April 13. (See “Start-up Cost Offer Development Endorsed,” PJM MIC Briefs: April 13, 2022.)

2. Dynamic Line Ratings (9:30-9:50)

Members will be asked to endorse a proposal — and corresponding revisions to Manual 1: Control Center and Data Exchange Requirements, Manual 3: Transmission Operations and Manual 3A: Energy Management System Model Update and Quality Assurance — to address interim measures for the integration of dynamic line ratings (DLRs) into PJM operations. PPL is tentatively scheduled to go live in June with a DLR system on some of its transmission lines, and PJM wants to have operational implementation in place pending submission of the RTO’s FERC Order 881 compliance filing.

3. Application of Designated Entity Agreement (9:50-10:20)

Stakeholders will be asked to endorse a proposed solution and corresponding OA revisions addressing the application of the designated entity agreement. FERC rejected a filing in February by PJM in its Order 1000 compliance docket that would have updated the definition of “designated entity,” agreeing with a coalition of stakeholders that it infringed on their due process rights. (See FERC Rejects PJM Redefinition of ‘Designated Entity’ Under Order 1000.)