Below is a summary of the agenda items scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee meetings on Nov. 15. 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.

Markets and Reliability Committee

Consent Agenda (9:05-9:10)

The committee will be asked to endorse:

B. proposed revisions to Manual 3: Transmission Operations to update references to generation interconnection agreements and email addresses as part of the document’s periodic review.

C. proposed revisions to Manual 3: Transmission Operations to allow PJM to delay energizing a line if certain data have not been submitted by the relevant transmission owner. The changes pertain to cut-in projects. (See “Quick-fix Manual Changes to Transmission Facility Cut-in Process Approved,” PJM OC Briefs: Nov. 2, 2023.)

D. proposed revisions to Manual 10: Pre-scheduling Operations seeking to clarify that resources entering their available output or outages should report their nameplate capability unless there is a physical derate that reduces its output. (See “Clarifying Revisions to Manual 10 Endorsed,” PJM OC Briefs: Nov. 2, 2023.)

E. proposed revisions to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations to update that supporting documentation for offer verification exceptions should be submitted into Markets Gateway starting with the 2023/24 winter. Data have previously been submitted via Sharepoint.

F. proposed revisions to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations to specify that intermittent capacity resources should offer their economic maximum value equal to or larger than their hourly forecast, based on either PJM’s forecast or an equivalent forecast the generation owner has developed. (See “Other Committee Business,” PJM MIC Briefs: Nov. 1, 2023.)

Issue Tracking: Renewable Dispatch

G. proposed revisions to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations that would correct references to manual sections throughout the document.

H. proposed conforming revisions to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations, Manual 27: Open Access Transmission Tariff Accounting and Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting to implement the second phase of PJM’s rules for hybrid resources as laid out in FERC docket ER23-2484.

Issue Tracking: Solar-Battery Hybrid Resources

I. proposed revisions to Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary Services Market Operations to codify the performance assessment interval (PAI) triggers FERC approved in ER23-1996. (See “Manual Revisions for New Performance Assessment Interval Triggers Endorsed,” PJM MIC Briefs: Nov. 1, 2023.)

J. proposed revisions to Manual 13: Emergency Operations to reflect the same changes to the PAI triggers.

K. proposed conforming revisions to Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market that would update several definitions and references in the manual.

L. proposed revisions to Manual 19: Load Forecasting and Analysis to reflect the change to an hourly model, add clarity around the price-responsive demand forecast procedure and provide typographic fixes.

Endorsements (9:10-10:05)

1. Manual 14D: Generator Operational Requirements (9:10-9:25)

PJM’s Vincent Stefanowicz will present proposed revisions to Manual 14D: Generator Operational Requirements that would add a requirement that generation owners prepare for cold weather operations and expand its cold weather checklist. (See “Generation Winterization Requirements Endorsed,” PJM OC Briefs: Nov. 2, 2023.)

The committee will be asked to endorse the manual revisions.

2. Clean Attribute Procurement Senior Task Force (CAPSTF) Sunset (9:25-9:40)

PJM’s Scott Baker will present the final report on the CAPSTF and a proposal to sunset the group, as discussions have been taken up by a state-led working group outside the PJM stakeholder process. (See “Stakeholders Mixed on Sunsetting Clean Attribute Procurement STF,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)

Issue Tracking: Procurement of Clean Resource Attributes

The committee will be asked to endorse sunsetting the task force.

3. Performance Impact of the Multi-schedule Model on the Market Clearing Engine (9:40-10:05)

PJM’s Keyur Patel will review two proposals that would narrow the number of offers from combined cycle and storage resources that are modeled by the market clearing engine to allow multi-schedule modeling to be incorporated into the market clearing engine (MCE) without causing infeasible increases in computation times. (See “Multiple Proposals Considered for Incorporation of Multi-schedule Modeling,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)

Issue Tracking: Performance Impact of the Multi-schedule Model on the Market Clearing Engine

The committee will be asked to endorse one of the two proposed solutions and corresponding revisions to the tariff and Operating Agreement.

Members Committee

Consent Agenda (1:05-1:10)

The committee will be asked to:

B. endorse the recommended values in the 2023 Reserve Requirement Study for the installed reserve margin and forecast pool requirement, which would both increase over last year’s values. (See “Recommended Values for 2023 Reserve Requirement Study,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)

C. approve proposed revisions to Manual 34: PJM Stakeholder Process to add deadlines for adding an item to the agenda of a senior standing committee, standing committee and other stakeholder groups. (See “3 Changes to Stakeholder Process Proposed,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)

D. approve proposed revisions to Manual 34: PJM Stakeholder Process seeking to clarify that the senior standing committees hold final authority over issues considered by lower stakeholder groups and that the lower standing committees set the order that proposals will be voted on by the MRC and MC. (See “3 Changes to Stakeholder Process Proposed,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)

E. approve proposed revisions to Manual 34: PJM Stakeholder Process that would change the truncated voting structure so that if a main motion fails, any alternatives are considered simultaneously, as opposed to the current system of voting on them one by one until one receives sector-weighted support or all have failed. (See “3 Changes to Stakeholder Process Proposed,” PJM MRC Briefs: Oct. 25, 2023.)