Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP)
RTO Insider's monthly preview of the items on the PJM MC and MRC agendas along with a description/explanation and links to our previous coverage.
PJM yesterday began inviting competitive proposals for transmission projects to provide relief at its 25 most congested locations.
Constraints that can be quickly and cheaply resolved would be included in the PJM RTEP under a proposal given first reading at the MRC on Thursday, 8/1/13.
NJ's legislature called on state utility regulators to support development of the proposed transmission “backbone” for offshore wind.
Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending. Lines on shore also will have to be upgraded or built.
Public interest groups scolded PJM for excluding them from the MOPR stakeholder process and for setting its annual meeting at the Greenbrier. The public interest groups and state regulators also praised PJM for its handling of generation retirements and lobbied it to increase use of demand response and energy efficiency.
Changes to the following PJM manual was approved by the Markets and Reliability Committee on Feb. 28, 2013, effective March 1, 2013. For more information, co...
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