The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s annual reserve requirement study and recommendations for a 15.7% IRM for next year’s Base Residual Auction.

PJM has scheduled a two-day workshop on enabling DERs to “ride through” frequency fluctuations but postponed action on a task force on the issue.

PJM’s transmission owners have floated a proposal that would comply with FERC’s show cause order on their planning processes.

PJM is asking stakeholders for the opportunity to investigate whether operating parameters for inverter-based generators create a reliability risk.

The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s recommended load model for the 2018 reserve requirement study, which uses data from 2003 through 2012.

PJM is planning to add another volume to its Manual 14 series by splitting out the requirements for generation interconnection.

PJM staff completed an analysis on the reliability impact of the retirements of FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse, Perry and Beaver Valley nuclear plants.

LS Power’s cost-containment proposal remains largely intact and on schedule to return for a vote at the PJM MRC.

Stakeholders plowed through several hours of material at a special PJM Planning Committee session on whether the RTO should include cost containment provisions in its analysis of competitive bids for new transmission.

PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.