While much of the discussion at Thursday’s Markets & Reliability and Members committee meetings revolved around larger issues, stakeholders also endorsed a number of other items and heard a host of first reads.
Markets & Reliability Committee
Endorsed/Approved
- PJM manual changes:
- Manual 03A: Energy Management System Model Updates and Quality Assurance
- Manual 13: Emergency Operations
- Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations related to pseudo-tie overlapping congestion (one abstention)
- Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting related to pseudo-tie overlapping congestion (one abstention)
- RPM credit requirement reduction clarifications
- Transmission constraint penalty factors (three abstentions; also included on Members Committee consent agenda)
- FERC Order 831 – offer caps (seven objections)
First readings
- Price responsive demand review for capacity performance requirements
- 2019 day-ahead scheduling reserve requirement
- Surety bonds
- PJM manual changes:
- Manual 03: Transmission Operations
- Manual 10: Pre-Scheduling Operations
- Manual 14D: Generator Operational Requirements
- Manual 27: Open Access Transmission Tariff Accounting
- Manual 06: Financial Transmission Rights
Members Committee
The Members Committee elected new members to one-year terms on the Nominating Committee:
- Electric Distributor Sector: Pat McCullar, Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation Inc.
- End-Use Customer Sector: Kirstin Munsch, Illinois Citizen Utility Board
- Generation Owner Sector: David Scarpignato, Calpine Energy Services
- Other Supplier Sector: Bruce Bleiweis, DC Energy
- Transmission Owner Sector: John Horstmann, Dayton Power and Light
Consent agenda:
- Tariff and Operating Agreement revisions developed by the Governing Documents Enhancement and Clarification Subcommittee
Endorsed/approved:
- Manual 15: Cost Development Guidelines biennial review