Members voted last week to expand the scope of the Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force to incorporate reactive cost issues originally assigned to a separate panel.

The Markets and Reliability Committee approved a revised charter for the EMUSTF, which it created May 30 to minimize energy market up-lift charges and develop methodologies for allocating make-whole payments (see MRC Approvals 5/30/13.)

The changes incorporate into the charter the scope originally assigned to a subgroup on Day-Ahead Reliability and Reactive Cost Allocation (DARRCA). The DARRCA group met nine times from December 2012 through October 2013 and was attempting to create solution packages when the process “stalled,” PJM’s Dave Anders told the MRC.

“The consensus was that the issue would be better dealt with in the context of all uplift,” Anders said.

The task force continued its work under the expanded scope with a meeting Dec. 20.