PJM Planning Committee (PC)
A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on Sept. 2, 2014.
A round-up of news from the PJM Market Implementation Committee on Sept. 3, 2014.
PJM received 106 proposals to fix about 50 reliability problems in the first Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Order 1000 window for 2014.
Two losing bidders for the Artificial Island transmission project have issued harsh critiques of PJM’s handling of the solicitation, seeking to persuade the Board of Managers to reject planners’ recommendation that the project be awarded to PSE&G.
PJM officials are considering boosting the RTO’s installed reserve margin (IRM) for winter as a result of its experience in January, when it narrowly avoided shedding load amid frigid temperatures and high outage rates.
PJM will likely change its planning assumptions based on an analysis that found a strong correlation between wind chill indices and generator outages.
The first project window for the 2019 PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) will open in about a month.
The Planning Committee voted last week to initiate work to bring PJM into compliance with FERC’s Small Generator Interconnection rules.
The Electric Power Research Institute will lead an educational session on smart inverters March 31 as the Planning Committee begins work on developing standards for the devices.
PPL announced a special protection scheme to prevent overloads on its Susquehanna-Jenkins 230kv transmission line.
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