Panelists at MACRUC discussed the balance between upgrading an aging transmission grid and limiting the costs of those upgrades.
Members strongly endorsed the third phase of PJM’s plan to address uplift, despite opposition from financial stakeholders.
PJM again deferred a vote on the grid operator’s proposed pseudo-tie pro forma agreement after stakeholders complained about revision transparency.
An update on the PJM Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force at the end of the Markets and Reliability Committee meeting became contentious.
The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a plan to change compensation in the RTO’s regulation market, despite criticism.
The plethora of dispatch data PJM provides is only useful if the grid operator also explains what it means, stakeholders told RTO staff at a special MIC.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied eight challenges to PJM’s Capacity Performance rules, potentially cementing changes to the RTO's capacity market.
PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.
PJM published three documents detailing their efforts to integrate public policy and emerging technologies into its markets.
The North American grid was very reliable in 2016, but threats are increasing and restoration from a total system collapse could prove time-consuming.