PJM staff highlighted procedural and process challenges of adding cost containment as a factor in transmission planning decisions.
A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees on March 22, 2018.
PJM assured Pennsylvania legislators that the state has ample power generation for its needs and cautioned that fuel diversity will not ensure reliability.
American Electric Power’s portion of Duff-Rockport-Coleman project has been placed on hold and will not be modeled in the 2018 RTEP, PJM told the TEAC.
PJM will hold its spring restoration drill May 15-16, staff told attendees at last week’s Operating Committee meeting.
PJM stakeholders at last week’s Market Implementation Committee meeting approved two problem statements and issue charges presented by Exelon.
RTO officials asked FERC to allow their stakeholder processes time to develop additional resilience measures and to require more gas-electric coordination.
While structural issues persist, PJM's markets were competitive in 2017, the RTO's Market Monitor said Thursday contradicting concerns from PJM and some stakeholders that prices are unsustainably low.
PJM won’t be offering market compensation to comply with FERC’s requirement that almost all resources provide primary frequency response.
PJM is experiencing an “unprecedented” switch from coal- to gas-fired generation while also managing the replacement of aging transmission infrastructure.