This month's Inside Lines informs PJM's stakeholders of various committee actions, upcoming training and other activities. PJM would like to highlight the following:

PJM E-mail Distribution Lists Upgrade
PJM is replacing its Majordomo e-mail list software with a new system. The Majordomo e-mail software was a means to manage large group lists such as the PJM’s members list. The new system will improve security of e-mail lists. The change will occur on Oct. 2.
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Joint and Common Market Update
The 17 initiatives that are part of the plan of joining aspects of the Midwest Independent System Operator (Midwest ISO) and PJM markets are on track for completion, as reported at the Joint and Common Markets Committee Sept. 8 meeting. The additional initiatives that involve other analysis are progressing as planned. (more)

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What's Inside:

Committees Report
Highlights
Regulatory Reports

10.02.2006 – 10.13.2006 Initial Training Program
10.17.2006 Generation 101
10.18.2006 Generation 201
10.19.2006 Generation 301
10.20.2006 Operations 101
10.24.2006 – 11.02.2006 Initial Training Program
11.08.2006 – 11.09.2006 Transactions 201
11.13.2006 Generation 101
11.14.2006 Generation 201
11.14.2006 – 11.15.2006 Transmission 101
11.15.2006 Generation 301
11.16.2006 Operations 101
11.29.2006 – 11.30.2006 System Restoration Workshop

Committee Meetings:

• Regional Planning Process Working Group (RPPWG) – 09.29.2006 – Topics: Cost Allocation vs. ARR Benefit, ARR Allocation for RTEP Proposal, RPPWG Stakeholder Comments, Transmission Right Allocation.
• Members Committee (MC) – 09.28.2006 – Topics: Consent Agenda, Finance Committee, Election of Nominating Committee Members, Board Communication, Annual Plan, Management Reports, State Activities, ReliabilityFirst Activities, Markets and Reliability Committee, Future Agenda Items.
• Finance Committee (FC) – 09.27.2006 – Topics: 2006 Forecast, 2007 Proposed Budget, 2006-2010 Financial Projections, 2007 Budget Recommendation, Organization of PJM States (OPSI) 2007 Budget, Proposed Tariff Schedule 9-FINCON.
• Dispatcher Training Task Force (DTTF) – 09.26.2006 – Topics: SOS Liaison Report, PJM Operations Training 2006-07, PJM Drills, Revisions to PJM Operations Manuals 11 and 13, PJM Operator Certification, NERC Certification.
• Market Implementation Committee (MIC) – 09.26.2006 – Topics: FMU/AU Revisions, Black Start Revisions, FTR Proposal, Transmission Right Coordination, Joint and Common Market Update, Transmission Outage Acceleration Update, ARR Allocation Proposal, Loop Flow Update, EMKT User Interface, Demand Side Response Working Group Update, Market Settlements Working Group Update, 180-Day Stakeholder Process Update.
• Voltage Profile and Reactive Margin Working Group (VPRMWG) – 09.26.2006 – Topics: Review Charter, Finalize Voltage Philosophy Template, Review and Modify Recommendations Document, Additional Recommendations, Identify Other Issues to be Discussed at November PC and OC.
• Demand Side Response/Metering Issues Subcommittee Jt. Mtg. (DSRWG/MIS) – 09.21.2006 – Topics: Demand Side Response Reports, eLoadResponse Update, Future eLoadResponse Enhancements.
• Systems Information Subcommittee (SIS) – 09.20.2006 – Topics: Member Company Roundtable, PJM Operations, Inter-RTO Activities, eSUITE Update, PJMnet, Electric Utility Security Issues, Communication and System Issues, Metrics.
• Tariff Advisory Committee (TAC) – 09.20.2006 – Topics: Draft Tariff Revisions Timing Changes for OASIS (JCM), Draft Tariff Revisions and Draft Operating Agreement Revisions Generation Interconnection Technical Standards, Draft Tariff Revisions and Draft Operating Agreement Revisions Demand Side Response, Draft Tariff Revisions for Removal of Schedules 10 and 11, Draft Tariff Schedule 9 – FINCON, Draft Tariff Schedule for ReliabilityFirst and NERC Billings and Collection.
• Operating Committee (OC) – 09.19.2006 – Topics: Review of Operations, PCLLRW’s – Planning Perspective System Operations Subcommittee (SOS), Voltage Schedule Working Group, Transmission Outage Acceleration, Markets and Reliability Committee, Market Implementation Committee, System Information Subcommittee (SIS), NERC Update, Reliability First Update, OC Action Items.
• Interconnection Project Management Working Group (IPMWG) – 09.19.2006 – Topics: Workshop on Implementation of Order No. 2006 (Small Generation Interconnections (20 MW or Less) , Overview, Study Process Impact, Agreements, Deposits / Billing impact, Proposed Manual Changes, Guidelines for Jurisdiction Over Interconnections to Distribution Systems, Review of Current PJM Bright Line Test for Jurisdiction, Case Studies / Examples, Wholesale Market Participation Agreement (WMPA), Option to Build, Review of Final OATT revisions, Review of Process Changes, Miscellaneous, Overview of Proposed Current OATT Housekeeping Items, Other issues.
• System Operations Subcommittee (SOS) – 09.14.2006 – Topics: Review of Operations, eDART User Group Update, Dispatcher Training Task Force Update, Data Management Working Group Update, System Operator Certification, Generator Limits and Ramp Rates via ICCP, Spinning Reserve Performance, Reactive Issues, Winter Emergency Procedures Drill, Future Agenda Items, Simulator Demonstration.
• At Risk Generation Subcommittee (ARG) – 09.13.2006 – Topics: Scope – Long-Term/Short-Term Focus, Regulated vs. Unregulated Environment, Effect of Transmission Planning on Generation, Risks to Generation, Future Activities, Proposals.
• 180 Day Report (180DRWG)– 09.12.2006 – Topics: Day-Ahead Market Operations Presentation, Working Issues List – Review Working Issues Categories and Sub-Groupings List, Discuss Impacts, Review Priority of Each Issue, Review Working Group/PJM Scope for Each Category, Action Items.
• Credit Working Group (CWG) – 09.12.2006 – Topics: Foreign Guarantees, Acceptability of Accounts Receivable as Credit, Segregation of Credit, Non-Affiliated Guaranties.
• Markets & Reliability Committee (MRC)– 09.11.2006 – Topics: Timing Changes for OASIS, Small Generator Interconnection Working Group, Demand Side Response, Interface Pricing, Transmission Rights Initiatives Coordination, Market Implementation Committee, Planning Committee, Operating Committee.
• MISO-PJM Joint and Common Market Stakeholder Working Group – 09.08.2006 – Topics: Update on Joint and Common Market Initiatives, Additional Potential JCM Initiatives, Overview of Enhanced Joint Web Site, Next Steps.

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PJM E-mail Distribution Lists Upgrade

PJM is replacing its Majordomo e-mail list software with a new system. The Majordomo e-mail software was a means to manage large group lists such as the PJM’s members list. The new system will improve security of e-mail lists. The change will occur on Oct. 2.

Users of the system should note that the prefix of all groups will remain the same however the new address will be @lists.pjm.com. PJM will transfer subscriptions from the current system to the new system so no action by the members is required.

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Joint and Common Market Update

The 17 initiatives that are part of the plan of joining aspects of the Midwest Independent System Operator (Midwest ISO) and PJM markets are on track for completion, as reported at the Joint and Common Markets Committee Sept. 8 meeting. The additional initiatives that involve other analysis are progressing as planned.

Midwest ISO and PJM are working together to develop complementary operations system and market systems to meet the needs of customers and stakeholders in 23 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian province of Manitoba. The initiatives are being developed through an open stakeholder process and are being designed to support stakeholders regardless of whether they participate in states with bundled or unbundled retail rates.

The objectives of the committee are to provide the highest level of inter-regional reliability while delivering the lowest cost energy and ancillary services to electric load across the Midwest ISO and PJM regions.

The following initiatives are on track or have been completed:
• PJM Implementation of Marginal Losses
• Alignment of Operating Reserves/Revenue Sufficiency Guarantee Products
• Website Common Search Capabilities (Complete)
• Existing Midwest ISO Price Transparency Portal and PJM eData Websites (Linking of Sites)
• Enhanced Joint Website
• Moving Joint Owned Units Between Markets (Complete)
• Common Long Term Transmission Queue
• Midwest ISO Ramp Viewer (Complete)
• Central Location to View Both Ramp Viewers
• Alignment of OASIS Business Practices
• Common Treatment of Dynamic Schedules/Pseudo Ties
• Joint Expansion Planning (Coordinated System Plan)
• Common Deliverability Studies

The next meeting for the committee is scheduled for January 22.

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FERC Orders

September

• 09.21.2006 Docket Nos. ER05-6 et al., EL04-135 et al., EL02-111 et al., EL03-212 et al. (PDF)
  The Commission issued an order on September 21, 2006, which directed the FERC Staff to convene a technical conference to resolve the competing cross border cost allocation proposals filed by the PJM parties and the MISO parties on April 20, 2006. Staff is directed to report to the Commission the results of the conference within 150 days. The order indicates that the Commission is looking to adopt elements of both proposals including MISO's approach that considers counter-flows and PJM's more granular zonal approach (or even a nodal approach).
• 09.21.2006 Docket No. ER06-1296-000 (PDF)
  On September 21, 2006, the Commission accepted for filing an interconnection service agreement among PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., WM Renewable Energy, L.L.C., and PECO Energy Company, with a June 28, 2006 effective date, as requested.
• 09.20.2006 Docket No. ER06-1290-000 (PDF)
  On September 20, 2006, the Commission accepted for filing a construction service agreement among PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Lancaster Wind Farm, LLC and Commonwealth Edison Company, with a June 27, 2006 effective date, as requested.
• 09.19.2006 ER06-954-001, ER06-880-002, ER06-456-005 (PDF)
  On September 19, 2006, the Commission issued an order granting rehearing for the limited purpose of further consideration concerning PJM's filing of RTEP cost allocations.
• 09.18.2006 RT01-98-001 (PDF)
  On September 18, 2006, the Commission issued an order on rehearing concerning the border rate to be paid by AMP-Ohio as a result of Allegheny Power's integration into PJM. The matter was set for hearing and settlement judge procedures.
• 09.14.2006 Docket No. ER06-1374-000 (PDF)
  On September 14, 2006, the Commission accepted for filing in Docket No. ER06-1374-000, a nonconforming executed construction service agreement among PJM, Benson Wind Farm, LLC and Commonwealth Edison company, effective July 17, 2006, as requested.
• 09.13.2006 Docket Nos. ER06-1310-000, 001 (PDF)
  On September 13, 2006, the Commission issued a letter order accepting a Network Integration Transmission Service Agreement between PJM and American Electric Power Service Corporation in Docket No. ER06-1310. The Commission granted the requested effective date of July 1, 2006 for the agreement.
• 09.13.2006 ER06-826-002 (PDF)
  On September 13, 2006 the Commission issued an order in Docket No. ER06-826-002 granting rehearing for further consideration of the Commission's order issued on July 14, 2006 regarding amendments to Attachment M of the PJM Tariff relating to PJM's market monitoring function.
• 09.12.2006 Docket Nos. ER06-1316-000, ER06-1317-000 (PDF)
  On September 12, 2006, the Commission issued a letter order accepting Network Integration Transmission Service Agreements between PJM and the Blue Ridge Power Agency, and between PJM and Wabash Valley Power Association in Docket Nos. ER06-1316-000 and ER06-1317, respectively. The Commission granted the requested effective date of July 1, 2006 for the agreements.
• 09.08.2006 Docket No. ER06-1263-000 (PDF)
  On 9/8/2006, the Commission issued an Order in Docket No. ER06-1263-000 and accepted revisions to the PJM Tariff, the PJM Operating Agreement, the PJM RAA and the PJM West RAA made related to the Consolidated Transmission Owners Agreement with the requested effective date of 9/18/2006.
• 09.08.2006 Docket No. ER06-406-000 (PDF)
  The Commission issued an order in Docket No. ER06-406-000 approving a settlement as just and reasonable that sets forth the terms and conditions for Batch Load Demand Resource participation in the PJM Synchronized Reserve Market.

August

• 08.28.2006 Docket No. ER06-1177-000 (PDF)
  On August 28, 2006, the Commission issued a deficiency letter in Docket ER06-1177-000 regarding PJM's Option to Build Tariff revisions. The letter requests PJM provide additional information re: the election of the Option to Build by interconnection customers In addition, the Commission requests further information on PJM's proposal to change the security requirements for upgrades whether performed by the transmission owner or the interconnection customer. The answer is due within 15 days.

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September

• 09.25.2006 Docket No. ER06-199-001 (PDF)
  On September 25, 2006, PJM amended its August 7, 2006 compliance filing in Docket No. ER06-199-001, to correct a typographical error.
• 09.22.2006 D.C. Circuit Case No. 06-1326 (PDF)
  On September 22, 2006, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals a motion to intervene in Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. FERC, Case No. 06-1256 (ODEC's appeal regarding FERC's rejection of ODEC's revenue requirement for network upgrades related to the Rock Springs plant).
• 09.22.2006 Docket Nos. RM05-25-000 and RM05-17-000 (PDF)
  Reply Comments of the ISO/RTO Counsel addressing reform of the Commission's pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff under RM05-25 and RM05-17.
• 09.21.2006 ER06-1459-000 (PDF)
  On September 21, 2006, PJM filed a Motion to Intervene in Docket No. ER06-1459, in which NRG Energy Center Dover, LLC seeks Commission approval of its revenue requirements for providing Reactive Power from its generating facilities located in Dover, Delaware, in the PJM region.
• 09.20.2006 Docket Nos. RM05-25-000 and RM05-17-000 (PDF)
  On September 20, 2006, PJM filed the attached individual Reply Comments in the rulemaking proceeding to amend the pro forma Order No. 888 Open Access Transmission Tariff. PJM's Reply Comments address: (i) RTO and ISO markets and transmission service models and the physical contract path transmission rights model; (ii) Firm liquidated damages contracts eligibility for network resource designation; (iii) ATC calculations at the Midwest ISO and PJM border; (iv) PJM's Open and Transparent Regional Planning Process, (v) How RTOs/ISOs provide the function of coordinating ATC between RTO/ISO regions; (vi) Undue discrimination by Non-RTO/ISO transmission providers that border RTOs and PJM's Interface Pricing Pont Consolidation approach; and (vii) Joint Ownership of Transmission Projects. PJM's individual Reply Comments are in addition to joint Reply Comments with a diverse group of owners, operators and users of the transmission grid which underscore a common opinion and position on an issue central to this proceeding - namely, the appropriate use of redispatch to improve access to the transmission grid and the desirability and feasibility of bringing (through this rulemaking) transparency to the dispatch function to make redispatch both effective and fair to all participants. PJM also joins in the Reply Comments filed by the ISO/RTO Council ("IRC").
• 09.20.2006 Docket Nos. RM05-25-000 and RM05-17-000 (PDF)
  PJM filed joint reply comments with a diverse group of other interested parties proposing the Commission expand its current consideration of Order 888 Reform to include rules for transparent dispatch and enhanced redispatch.
• 09.19.2006 Docket No. ER06-xxx-000 (PDF)
  On September 19, 2006, PJM filed revisions to its Amended and Restated Operating Agreement and the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff to limit the time period within which parties seek billing adjustments under the OA or Tariff, and to limit when PJM may make billing adjustments to charges and/or credits assessed pursuant to the Tariff or OA.
• 09.19.2006 Docket No. ER06-1432-000 (PDF)
  On September 19, 2006, PJM filed a Motion to Intervene, in docket number ER06-1432-000, to ComEd's filing with the Commission of an Interconnection Agreement by and among ComEd, Batavia and PJM and a Construction Agreement by and between ComEd and Batavia, each dated May 30, 2006.
• 09.18.2006 Docket Nos. EL06-62-001, ER06-765-001 (PDF)
  On September 18, 2006 PJM filed a motion for a protective order, together with a proposed protective order, in an HP Energy Resources complaint proceeding, Docket No. EL06-62.
• 09.15.2006 Docket No. EL06-97-000 (PDF)
  On September 15, 2006, PJM and the Midwest ISO jointly filed the attached answer to the Complaint filed in Docket No. EL06-97-000 by Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Upper Peninsula Power Company, WPS Energy Services, Inc., and its subsidiary, WPS Power Development, LLC (collectively referred to as WPS) on August 15, 2006. The Complaint alleges that the RTOs have abandoned the joint and common market because they are not pursuing a single dispatch across the combined regions. The Answer demonstrates, among other things, that the Commission's prior orders do not define a joint common market as requiring a single dispatch and that the production cost study demonstrates that a single dispatch is not cost justified.
• 09.14.2006 EL05-74-001, 002 (PDF)
  On September 14, 2006, PJM filed with FERC in Docket No. EL05-74-001, 002 a refund report relating to the settlement concerning the funding of certain non-capital costs associated with the integration of AEP, ComEd and Dayton into PJM.
• 09.14.2006 Docket No. RM06-10-000 (PDF)
  On September 14, 2006, PJM filed a Reply to the Supplemental Comments of the Electric Consumers Resource Council (ELCON) in the Commission's rulemaking proceeding to implement Section 210(m) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (RM06-10), which reforms the mandatory purchase obligation for Qualifying Facilities established by PURPA.
• 09.14.2006 Docket No. ER06-826 (PDF)
  PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed an answer in Docket ER06-826-002, to the requests seeking rehearing of the Commission's order accepting PJM's recent revision to its Market Monitoring Plan.
• 09.13.2006 Docket RM06-8-001 (PDF)
  On September 13, 2006 PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a Motion to Answer and Answer in, Docket No. RM06-8. The Answer addresses certain issues raised in the rehearing requests filed in response to the Commission?s Final Rule on Long-Term Transmission Rights in Organized Electricity Markets issued in Docket No. RM06-8-000.
• 09.11.2006 Docket No. ER06-1336-000 (PDF)
  On September 11, 2006, in Docket No. ER06-1336-000, PJM filed an Answer to the Protest of Indeck-Elwood, L.L.C. regarding the unexecuted interconnection service agreement filed in this docket that, if accepted by the Commission, would grant Elwood capacity interconnection rights and enable Elwood generating facility to be interconnected to the PJM transmission system as a Capacity Resource.
• 09.08.2006 Docket No. ER06-1474-000 (PDF)
  On September 8, 2006, PJM filed amendments to the PJM Tariff and Operating Agreement to amend its Regional Transmission Expansion Plan to enhance economic planning and more closely integrate the planning of transmission for market efficiency with PJM's transmission planning to maintain system reliability.
• 09.08.2006 Docket No. EL05-121-000 (PDF)
  On September 8, 2006, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. submitted for filing with FERC its Brief Opposing Exceptions in Docket No. EL05-121-000, the license plate rate proceeding.
• 09.07.2006 Docket No. EL06-94-000 (PDF)
  On September 7, 2006, PJM submitted an answer to the comments of American Public Power Association in Docket No. EL06-94, the Chambersburg complaint proceeding regarding ARR allocation for the 2006/2007 planning year.
• 09.06.2006 EL06-62-001, ER06-765-001 (PDF)
  On September 6, 2006, PJM filed an answer to H-P Energy Resources, LLC's motion to compel responses to its initial data requests in Docket No. EL06-62-001, et al.
• 09.05.2006 Docket No. ER06-1271-000 (PDF)
  On September 5, 2006 PJM filed an answer to protests filed in Docket No. ER06-1271-000.
  

August

• 08.31.2006 Docket No. ER06-1452-000 (PDF)
  On August 31, 2006, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. ("PJM") filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an executed Wholesale Market Participation Agreement ("WMPA") among PJM, Granger Energy of Honey Brook, L.L.C. ("Honey Brook"), and PPL Electric Utilities Corporation ("PPL"), executed on August 8, 2006. PJM is submitting this agreement for filing because Honey Brook intends to conduct wholesale sales of electric energy in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to PPL distribution facilities.
• 08.31.2006 Docket No. ER06-1453-000 (PDF)
  On August 31, 2006, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. ("PJM") filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") an executed Wholesale Market Participation Agreement ("WMPA") among PJM, Ocean Energy Corporation ("Ocean Energy"), and Jersey Central Power & Light Company, a FirstEnergy Company ("JCP&L"), executed on August 18, 2006. PJM is submitting this agreement for filing because Ocean Energy intends to conduct wholesale sales of electric energy in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to JCP&L's distribution facilities.
  

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