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 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 manual changes:
A. Manual 03A: Energy Management System (EMS) Model Updates and Quality Assurance (QA) — Includes updates and formatting changes to improve consistency and readability; new table added for important links.
B. Manual 14A – Updates related to MISO-PJM queue coordination. (See PJM to Try Again to Speed Interconnection Filings.)
C. Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market – Updated to reflect revisions recently approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the shape of the Variable Resource Requirement Curve, gross cost of new entry values, and the Net Energy & Ancillary Services Revenue Offset methodology. (See PJM Board Orders Filing on Capacity Parameter Changes.)
D. Regional Transmission and Energy Scheduling Practices document — Changes made to comply with FERC Order 676H and North American Energy Standards Board standards. PJM is primarily impacted by FERC requirements for “Service Across Multiple Transmission Systems” (SAMTS). (See FERC Proposes Revised Communication, Business Rules.)
Members Committee
2. CONSENT AGENDA (11:05-11:10)
B. Tariff and Operating Agreement (OA) revisions developed by the Demand Response Subcommittee to change the way PJM measures and verifies residential demand response.
The revisions allow statistical sampling and clarify rules for all residential customers. (See “Sampling to be used for Measuring Residential DR” in MRC/MC Briefs, Nov. 25.)
C. Tariff revisions to remove seller credit, a form of unsecured credit, from the credit policy, which RTO officials say is no longer necessary.
D. Tariff and OA revisions related to data availability for the bus distribution factors for zonal and residual metered load aggregates utilized by the day-ahead energy market. In the event technical limitations restrict PJM’s ability to obtain the load distribution factors from the 0800 snapshot one week prior to the operating day or if the data is unavailable, the load distribution factors from the most recently available day of the week that the operating day falls on will be used. (See “Tariff Revisions to Metered Load Aggregates” in Markets and Reliability Committee Briefs, Dec. 22.)
E. Tariff revisions related to enhanced inverter capability. (See “Standards for Enhanced Inverters” in Markets and Reliability Committee Briefs, Dec. 22.)
3. MANUAL 34: STAKEHOLDER PROCESS (11:10-11:25)
Manual 34: Stakeholder Process — Revisions regarding periodic review of PJM Manuals and a Robert’s Rules Guide.