Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee 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. RTO Insider will be in Valley Forge, Pa., covering the discussions and votes. See next Tuesday’s newsletter for a full report.
2. PJM Manuals (9:40-10:10)
Members will be asked to endorse the following manual changes:
- Manual 3: Transmission Operations. Updates stem from a periodic review.
- Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations. Resources that cannot reliably provide day-ahead scheduling reserve obligations in real time would be excluded from the process. They include nuclear units, dynamic transfers, run-of-river and self-scheduled pumped hydro units, wind units, solar units and non-energy resources. (See “Day-Ahead Scheduling Reserve Eligibility to be Studied,” PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs.)
- Manual 13: Emergency Operations. Updates are the result of a periodic review.
- Manual 14E: Merchant Transmission Specific Requirements. Reorganizes and updates the manual to reflect changes to the merchant network upgrade process approved in July 2015 by the MRC. Adds a new Section 2 that provides an overview of transmission interconnection customers proposing merchant transmission facilities upgrade projects.
- Manual 36: System Restoration. Amendments incorporate lessons learned from the annual restoration drill as well as changes from a periodic review.
3. External Capacity Performance Enhancements (10:10-10:30)
This problem statement and issue charge proposes to study the challenges associated with resources subject to pseudo-tie requirements that participate in the Capacity Performance market. (See “Study of Pseudo-Tie Standards for External CP Deferred,” PJM Markets and Reliability Committee Briefs.)
4. Real-Time Values (10:30-10:45)
Proposed changes to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations incorporate real-time values. Updates allow market seller to communicate unit’s actual operating parameters to PJM before and after the day-ahead market closes when the unit cannot operate. Stipulates that real-time values may be used to modify turn-down ratio, minimum run time, minimum down time, maximum run time, start-up time and notification time, and they can be made whole due to an actual constraint.
5. Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force (10:45-11:00)
Members will be asked to approve the proposed charter for the Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force, previously called the End of Life Senior Task Force.
6. Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force (11:00-11:15)
Revisions to the Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force charter incorporate a problem statement and issue charge regarding the review of virtual transaction rules.
7. Earlier Queue Submittal Task Force (11:15-11:30)
Members will be asked to approve the recommendations of the Earlier Queue Submittal Task Force. (See “New Project Submittal Process to Require Earlier Filing of Documents,” PJM Planning Committee and TEAC Briefs.)
8. Replacement Resources (11:30-11:45)
The committee will be asked to endorse a proposal by Barry Trayers of Citigroup Energy to add an acceptable reason for early capacity replacement.
9. Seasonal Capacity Resources Senior Task Force (11:45-12:00)
Members will be asked to endorse the draft charter for the Seasonal Capacity Resources Senior Task Force, charged with developing a common definition of “seasonal resource” and how they may best participate as Capacity Performance products. (See Consumer Advocates, Enviros Press PJM on Seasonal Capacity, Artificial Island.)
10. Distributed Energy Resources (12:45-1:00)
Members may be asked to approve clarifications to the previously approved distributed energy resources problem statement. (See “Faster Path to Market for Distributed Resources to be Studied,” PJM Markets and Reliability Briefs.)
11. Joint-owned Resource Communication Model (1:00-1:15)
Members will be asked to approve revisions to Manual 14D Attachment L.
– Suzanne Herel