Although FERC has required almost all new generating units to provide primary frequency response (PFR), PJM stakeholders are strongly opposing any move by the RTO to require existing units to follow suit.
South Carolina legislators continue to maneuver as if there is some room to negotiate the terms of a deal to sell SCANA to Dominion, but Dominion CEO Thomas Farrell emphatically rejected that presumption on a conference call to discuss the company’s Q1 2018 earnings.
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.
When stakeholders begin considering potential changes to PJM’s demand curve next month, one of the main debates will likely center on whether combustion turbines should remain the reference technology for estimating the cost of new entry be replaced by combined-cycle gas turbines.
PJM members at last week’s MRC meeting endorsed revisions to an initiative examining the calculation of the balancing ratio used in setting capacity offer caps.
FirstEnergy announced mixed Q1 2018 earnings along with a potential path to exit the bankruptcy of its merchant subsidiaries.
FERC approved PJM’s proposed rules for implementing restrictions imposed on energy efficiency resources by state or local regulators.
The closure of four nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio would boost power prices and carbon emissions, undoing the clean air benefits of renewables, according to a Brattle Group report.
PJM won’t abandon the Artificial Island transmission project because of threats to close the two nuclear plants it’s intended to support, the RTO said.
A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee (MRC) on April 19, 2018.