October 10, 2024

Transmission Operations

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SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs: July 31, 2018
The SPP Board of Directors approved a Tariff change requiring non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable (DVERs).
PSEG
PSEG Earnings, Combined Cycle Fleet Grow in Q2
Public Service Enterprise Group added two new combined cycle plants to its generating fleet as earnings rose in the second quarter.
ExxonMobil
FERC Rejects Liability Limit in NorthWestern Tx Pact
FERC rejected NorthWestern Energy’s attempt to limit its liability for service interruptions to an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana.
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Annual FERC Reliability Conference Takes on Resilience
Cheryl LaFleur, who has been attending the FERC reliability technical conference since her appointment, always opens the meeting by citing something special about each year’s gathering.
Overheard at Infocast’s SPP and MISO Markets Summit
Infocast’s first SPP and MISO Markets Summit attracted participants and industry representatives from the RTOs’ footprints for panel discussions.
Mexico Ministry of Energy
FERC OKs DC Tie Operations Between Texas, Mexico
FERC granted AEP Energy Partners’ request to transmit power between ERCOT and Mexico over existing DC tie connections.
National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center
DHS: 2017 Russian Probes Hit Hundreds of Energy Cos.
Russian hackers gained the ability to manipulate U.S. utilities’ industrial control systems in a campaign that compromised 100's of energy companies.
2nd Load Shed of PJM’s CP Era Follows Closely on 1st
PJM ordered its second load shed event since implementing Capacity Performance in 2015 less than two months after ordering the first.
UPDATED: Peak Reliability to Wind Down Operations
Peak Reliability said that it will wind down its role as a Reliability Coordinator and end its joint venture with PJM to form a western electricity market.
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PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: July 12, 2018
The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s recommended load model for the 2018 reserve requirement study, which uses data from 2003 through 2012.

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