Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committee meetings on 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 covering the discussions and votes. See next Tuesday’s newsletter for a full report.

Markets and Reliability Committee

Consent Agenda (9:05-9:10)

Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:

B. Manual 14A: New Services Request Process, Manual 14E: Upgrade and Transmission Interconnection Requests and Manual 14G: Generation Interconnection Requests.

Periodic review, including clarifying and administrative changes.

Endorsements/Approvals (9:10-9:35)

1. Emerging Technologies Forum (9:10-9:20)

Members will be asked to endorse the charter of a new group to provide transparency for PJM’s Advanced Technology Pilot Program (ATPP), a testing ground to study the technologies to enhance system reliability, operational and market efficiency, and resilience. The group was changed to a forum after stakeholders expressed concerns about adding another subcommittee. It will provide reports to the MRC, as well as the Planning, Operating and Market Implementation committees. (See “Emerging Technologies Subcommittee Proposed,” PJM MRC Briefs: April 30, 2020.)

2. Stakeholder Group Sunsets (9:20-9:35)

Members will be asked to endorse the sunsetting of eight stakeholder groups, which PJM determined were either dormant or had implemented their original tasks. (See “Task Force Sunset,” PJM MRC Briefs: May 28, 2020.)

Members Committee

Consent Agenda (10:35-10:40)

B. Members will be asked to endorse Tariff revisions to allow surety bonds as a form of collateral. The proposal, originally endorsed in October 2018 at the MIC, allows the use of surety bonds for all market purposes except financial transmission rights, with a $10 million cap per issuer for each member and a $50 million aggregate cap per issuer. (See “Surety Bond Proposal Endorsed,” PJM MRC Briefs: May 28, 2020.)

Endorsements/Approvals (10:40-11:35)

1. PMA Credit Requirements (10:40-10:50)

Members will be asked to endorse proposed Tariff revisions related to peak market activity credit requirements for federal, state and/or local law transfer of charges or credits. The revisions address a regulatory change in Ohio concerning the billing of network integration transmission service. (See “PMA Credit Requirements,” PJM MRC Briefs: May 28, 2020.)

2. Transparency and End-of-life Planning (10:50-11:35)

Joint stakeholders, including American Municipal Power, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, LS Power and members of the PJM Industrial Customer Coalition, will ask for a vote on their transparency and end-of-life (EOL) planning proposal for revisions to the Tariff. The EOL proposal narrowly failed last month at the MRC meeting. (See PJM End-of-life Proposals Fail at MRC.)