February 2, 2025

Ancillary Services

ERCOT Board of Directors/Annual Meeting Briefs
The ERCOT Board of Directors unanimously approved a $246.7 million transmission project to address growing energy needs along the Texas Gulf Coast.
MISO Designing Automatic Generation Control Program
MISO is moving ahead with developing an automatic generation control (AGC) program designed to rapidly deploy 400 MW of fast-ramping resources.
Power Technology
FERC Seeks Info on Ohio Generator’s Reactive Power Claim
FERC set hearing and settlement proceedings for the 747-MW combined cycle Carroll County Energy plant in Ohio, questioning its revenue requirements.
NERC
NERC Report Urges Preserving Coal, Nuke ‘Attributes’
NERC released its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment, urging preservation of “essential reliability services.”
ERCOT
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs
ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed two previously tabled nodal protocol revision requests following lengthy discussions.
PJM IMM Opposes Frequency Response Payment Bid
The PJM IMM is opposing the RTO and resource owners over generators receiving compensation for providing FERC-mandated primary frequency response.
© RTO Insider
PJM Operating Committee Briefs: Nov. 7, 2017
PJM presented the Operating Committee with a proposed solution to address FERC’s proposed primary frequency response rule.
Inland Mariners
FERC to Examine DTE Reactive Rate Reduction
FERC opened a fresh settlement proceeding to determine the fairness of DTE’s decreased revenue requirement for reactive power services.
GSEC
FERC OKs SPP Scarcity Pricing Change
FERC approved SPP’s operating reserves proposal but said the RTO should respond to criticism about scarcity pricing avoidance.
NYISO
NYISO Management Committee Briefs: Oct. 25, 2017
The NYISO Management Committee approved proposed Tariff changes to define the role of inverter-based energy storage in providing synchronized reserves.

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