PJM saves members nearly $200 million striving for perfect dispatch
PJM saved $199 million last year—an amount almost equal to its operating costs—by increasing efficiency in how generation is scheduled to meet electric demand requirements, particularly, the scheduling of more costly combustion turbines used to meet demand shortfalls. Accumulated savings since 2008 are $455 million.
Combustion turbines, gas or oil-fired generators that use air combustion to produce power, are often on-stand-by to run in case needed because they can be brought on-line more quickly. However, the cost of having them available and running them are typically more expensive than previously scheduled generation.
Scheduling the amount of power needed to meet consumers’ use is not a perfect science given variables such as weather. However, PJM has set aggressive goals each year to reach “perfect dispatch (PDF),” where generation scheduled equals the amount needed. Each incremental improvement toward perfect dispatch translates into savings for PJM’s members.
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Compliance filing with FERC on demand response
In January, PJM filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed revisions to clarify ambiguity on demand response measurement during emergency dispatch and performance verification testing. The filing also included a plan to transition the application of the revised rules.
The FERC ordered PJM to provide the revisions and transition plan when it approved the major tenets of PJM’s proposal in November 2011. The following is PJM’s statement about the filing:
Based on FERC’s direction and input through stakeholder discussions, PJM’s recent compliance filing includes a market-based transition plan to protect the reasonable expectations of demand response providers. The proposed revisions meet FERC’s direction to protect the grid’s reliance on demand response capacity resources while providing a transition mechanism that uses the incremental capacity auctions to insulate them from any potential economic losses related to implementation and clarification of the market rules. PJM’s proposal also provides additional protection to demand response providers in the event that they previously entered into a contract with an end-use customer that would result in unavoidable monetary loss given the clarified rules.
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PJM region highlighted in Times Square
As part of the distribution of PJM’s news release (PDF) on the integration of Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky, an image of the new PJM region map appeared on one of the large electronic displays in New York City’s Times Square. The display is sponsored by PR Newswire, a news release distribution service.
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New eData features enhance customization
PJM’s eData tool has several enhanced features to allow for easier customization and enhanced formatting of information and data, without affecting the “look and feel” of the existing version.
The internet tool, eData, gives users an overview of PJM operational and market data in a single application, eliminating the need to search for required information. In addition, registered users can customize and save the view that shows the specific data needed. The view can be customized using the templates which show information in a variety of display formats.
The new features allow registered eData users more formatting options to customize and save their preferred views and data. The enhancements improve productivity and give users more control of the data they use regularly. The new features include:
- Improved formatting of data
- Elimination of automatic resizing of windows. Maximum viewing size is user selectable
- Support of multiple pop-up windows, e.g. LMP Alerts
- Automatic updating of chart/graph content, e.g. Dispatch Rates
- Updated Homeland Security icon
- Access to updated LMP Contour map
Registered eData users can access the new features with their existing login credentials.
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PJM hires its first meteorologist
Weather plays a vital role at PJM specifically in determining load forecasts. When air temperature changes, consumers’ electricity use changes, generating units operate differently, and, ultimately, transmission line capacity is affected. In order to schedule enough generation resources, PJM needs precise weather forecasts to accurately predict electricity use.
After researching industry practices with meteorologists, PJM saw the value of hiring one initially as a contractor and then as a permanent position. Elizabeth Ellis, who graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor of science in meteorology and energy, business and finance; was hired in November 2011 to work in PJM Dispatch. Her role is to provide Dispatch and senior management with current and future weather conditions, evaluating the control room tools and weather tracking programs.
Since hiring a meteorologist, PJM’s load forecast accuracy has consistently improved and PJM is considering implementing suggestions to display dedicated monitors in the Control Room for tracking weather radar and satellite data.
Prior to having a meteorologist, PJM relied on automated forecasting programs to predict weather patterns based on seasonal norms. When extreme weather conditions such as Hurricane Irene occurred, the automated systems were no longer sufficient to provide consistent accuracy for load forecasts.
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Regulatory Reports
FERC Filings
01.31.2012 Docket No. ER12-525-001 (PDF)
On January 31, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-525-001, PJM re-submitted revisions to the Markets Settlement Section of its Emergency Load Response Program concerning the allocation of demand response emergency energy costs and charges, as an errata filing to correct an administrative and technical error in the meta-data code used when PJM originally submitted the same revisions to the Commission on December 2, 2011, which revisions the Commission has already accepted in a letter order issued on January 20, 2012. No textual or substantive changes are being made in this errata filing.
01.30.2012 Docket No. ER11-3322-001 (PDF)
On January 30, 2012, in Docket No. ER11-3322-001, PJM filed an answer to protests and comments relating to PJM's filing of January 5, 2012, to comply with the Commission's order of November 4, 2011, regarding changes to PJM's rules governing measurement and verification of capacity performance by providers of Load Management resources. PJM's answer urged the Commission to deny the protests; to reject alternative transition mechanisms for RPM delivery years 2012-2013 through 2014-2015 to protect "the reasonable reliance expectations of DR suppliers" that previously cleared capacity commitments for the transition years in the PJM capacity market; and to accept PJM's compliance filing without condition or modification.
01.30.2012 EL12-19-000 (PDF)
On January 30, 2012, in Docket No. EL12-19-000, PJM, Interconnection, L.L.C. submitted a motion for leave to answer and an answer to certain interventions, comments, protests and answers to the complaint and request for fast track processing of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. and Allegheny Energy Supply Company, LLC (collectively “FirstEnergy Companies”) filed on December 28, 2011 (“Complaint”). FirstEnergy Companies seek to modify certain provisions found in Schedule 1 of the PJM Operating Agreement, as well as the parallel provisions of the Attachment K – Appendix of the PJM Tariff, that govern the funding of Financial Transmission Rights.
01.27.2012 Docket No. ER11-2875-003 (PDF)
On January 27, 2012, PJM resubmitted in Docket No. ER11-2875-003 compliance tariff revisions previously submitted in that proceeding on December 19, 2011 in order to address the consequences of an eTariff coding issue in an unrelated filing that revised the same Tariff section. The enclosed revised Tariff section still has a requested effective date of December 19, 2011.
01.27.2012 Docket No. ER12-296-002 (PDF)
On January 27, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-296-002, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (“PSE&G”) submits with the Commission revisions to the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) Attachment H-10A, specifically revising Attachment 7, of Attachment H-10A to reflect the ROE incentive granted in PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. and Public Service Electric and Gas Company, 137 FERC ¶ 61,253 (2011) (the “December 30 Order”) for the Northeast Grid Reliability Project (“NGR Project”). In the December 30 Order, the Commission granted in part and denied in part revised tariff provisions submitted by PJM on behalf of PSE&G to PJM’s OATT which would implement incentive rate treatment.
01.27.2012 Docket No. ER12-910-000 (PDF)
On January 27, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-910-000, PJM submitted on behalf of Duke Energy Business Services, LLC (“DEBS”), which is acting as agent for Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. (“DEO”), a service agreement for filing in the PJM Service Agreements Tariff database. The Service Agreement (No. 3193) is a generator interconnection agreement (“Madison GIA”) between DEBS and Duke Energy Indiana, Inc. (“DEI”) in its role as owner of the Madison Generating Station.
01.25.2012 RM11-17-000 (PDF)
On January 25, 2012, in Docket No. RM11-17-000, PJM joined the ISO/RTO Council in submitting Comments of the ISO/RTO Council to the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the Enhancement of Electricity Market Surveillance and Analysis through Ongoing Electronic Delivery of Data from Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators.
01.24.2012 Docket No. ER12-640-000 (PDF)
On January 24, in Docket No. ER12-640-000, PJM submitted a Motion for Leave to Answer and Response to the Protest filed on behalf of Lancaster Wind Farm, LLC regarding the Notice of Cancellation of Original Service Agreement No. 1378 filed by PJM on December 19, 2011 in this docket.
01.23.2012 Docket No. ER12-863-000 (PDF)
On January 23, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-863-000, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., submitted for filing, amendments to Schedule 12 of the OA and Schedule 17 of the RAA to update those lists to include new members, delete withdrawing members and reflect updates to signatories and reflect corporate name changes. An effective date of December 31, 2011 has been requested.
01.17.2012 Docket No. ER12-816-000 (PDF)
On January 17, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-816-000, American Electric Power Service Corporation (“AEPSC”) on behalf of its affiliates Ohio Power Company and AEP Ohio Transmission Company, (referred to as “AEP”) filed a 30th revision to the AEPSC & Buckeye ILDSA under Service Agreement No. 1336, requesting an effective date of January 18, 2012.
01.13.2012 Docket No ER12-721-001 (PDF)
On January 13, 2012, in Docket No ER12-721-001, PJM filed an Errata with the Commission to correct an administrative error in the filing submitted on December 30, 2011. This Errata Filing does not change the substance of the Hamilton Filing nor does PJM change the proposed OATT and TOA revisions. PJM corrects the TOA tariff record to add the TOA Attachment A and the TOA signature page for Hamilton.
01.13.2012 Docket No. ER12-513-000 (PDF)
On January 13, 2012, PJM filed an answer in Docket No. ER12-513-000, to various comments and protests on PJM's 12/1/2011 to revise certain RPM tariff provisions. The tariff changes result from the 2011 triennial review of RPM's key auction parameters, and the 2011 performance assessment of RPM. PJM's answer rebutted criticisms of the December 1 Filing's changes to the gross CONE values, the use of the median Net CONE to set the overall PJM Region Net CONE, elimination of 2.5% hold-backs against the minimum annual and extended summer resource requirements, changes to the VRR Curve shape, retention of the nominal levelized modeling approach and Handy Whitman index adjustment and several other issues. PJM repeated its request that FERC approve the tariff changes by, and as of, 1/31/2012, to allow posting of correct auction parameters for the May 2011 BRA by 2/1/2012.
01.13.2012 EL12-19-000 (PDF)
On January 13, 2012, in Docket No. EL12-19-000, PJM, Interconnection, L.L.C. submitted an answer to the complaint and request for fast track processing of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. and Allegheny Energy Supply Company, LLC (collectively “FirstEnergy Companies”) filed on December 28, 2011 (“Complaint”). FirstEnergy Companies seek to modify certain provisions found in Schedule 1 of the PJM Operating Agreement, as well as the parallel provisions of the Attachment K – Appendix of the PJM Tariff, that govern the funding of Financial Transmission Rights.
01.06.2012 Docket No. ER12-469-000 (PDF)
On January 6, 2011, in Docket No. ER12-469-000, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed an answer opposing a motion for summary disposition and responding to other pleadings regarding PJM's November 22, 2011, petition for an order establishing a proceeding to determine the proper billing adjustments to correct errors in PJM's payments to certain owners of generation units of Balancing Operating Reserve Lost Opportunity ("BOR LOC") credits for certain periods of 2009-2011, and, to the extent necessary to implement the Commission's determination, a waiver of certain provisions of PJM's Tariff and Operating Agreement. PJM urged the Commission to deny the motion for summary disposition, and otherwise to grant the relief requested in the previously filed petition.
01.06.2012 Docket No. ER12-636-001 (PDF)
On January 6, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-636-001, PJM submitted to FERC an Amendment to its December 19, 2011 filing to i) revise its proposed revision to Section 15 of Attachment DD of the PJM Tariff as it could be interpreted as a substantive change that was not intended to be made; and ii) propose revisions to Section 1.5.6(g) of Schedule 6 of the PJM Operating Agreement to change the words “transmission zones” and “zones” to the defined Tariff term “Zones” for purposes of consistency with the remainder of that section. Consistent with its December 19th Filing, PJM requested that the Commission issue its order by no later than February 17, 2012 with an effective date of February 18, 2012.
01.06.2012 Docket No. ER12-773-000 (PDF)
On January 6, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-773-000, PJM submitted amendments to Schedule 12-Appendix of the PJM Tariff to incorporate cost responsibility assignments for 167 baseline upgrades included in the recent update to the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (“RTEP”) approved by the PJM Board of Managers (“PJM Board”) on December 7, 2011. The requested effective date is April 5, 2012.
01.05.2012 Docket No. AD12-1 and ER11-4081-000 (PDF)
On January 5, 2012, in Docket Nos. AD12-1 and ER11-4081, PJM filed a Letter from Michael J. Kormos to Chairman Wellinghoff and the Commissioners responding to issues raised by the Midwest ISO and the Michigan Public Service Commission concerning capacity portability and a joint and common market.
01.05.2012 Docket No. ER11-3322-001 (PDF)
On January 5, 2012, in Docket No. ER11-3322-001, PJM filed revisions to the PJM Tariff, Operating Agreement, and Reliability Assurance Agreement and other information to comply with the Commission's order of November 4, 2011, accepting, subject to certain conditions, PJM's April 7, 2011, changes to the rules governing measurement and verification of capacity curtailment by providers of Load Management resources in PJM's capacity market. The compliance filing includes: an explanation of DR aggregation and how under-performance penalties will be applied under the newly approved rules; revisions to add the compliance requirements for Firm Service Level ("FSL") participants to Attachment DD-1 of the PJM Tariff and Schedule 6 of the RAA; revisions clarifying that DR resources will receive energy market payments for measured reductions in consumption during emergency events, even if load exceeds PLC; revisions providing descriptions of and other information regarding comparison load baselines; and a proposed transition provision to apply during RPM delivery years 2012-2013 through 2014-2015 that "protects the reasonable reliance expectations of DR suppliers" from potential adverse consequences of implementation of the new DR capacity performance metric approved by the Commission.
01.04.2012 ER11-3972-002 (PDF)
On January 4, 2011, in Docket No. ER11-3972-002, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed an answer to protests regarding PJM's November 29, 2011 further compliance filing of revisions to the credit policy in Attachment Q regarding compliance with Order No. 741.
01.03.2012 Docket No. EL12-8-000 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, in Docket No. EL12-8-000, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed a limited answer to correct mis-statements of facts and confirm that it has identified five market participants that impermissibly reported purely financial internal bilateral transactions ("IBTs") to PJM.
01.03.2012 Docket Nos. ER12-721-000 and ER12-722-000 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, PJM submitted for filing an errata to amend the December 30, 2011 filing letter in Docket Nos. ER12-721-000 and ER12-722-000. The December 30, 2011 filing proposes revisions to Attachment L of the PJM Tariff and Attachment A of the TOA to include the City of Hamilton, Ohio as a PJM Transmission Owner. PJM requests the attached OATT section and TOA section have an effective date of February 29, 2012.
FERC Orders
02.07.2012 ER12-513-000 (PDF)
On February 7, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-513-000, Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner, Jr. issued an Order appointing the Honorable John P. Dring as the Settlement Judge. A settlement conference with Judge Dring is scheduled to convene at 10:00 a.m. on February 15, 2012, at FERC to explore the possibility of settlement, discuss the differences between the parties, and in general conduct the settlement negotiations.
02.07.2012 Docket No. ER12-723-000 (PDF)
On February 7, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-723-000, accepting twelve service agreements. The service agreements were filed to address Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. and Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. exit from the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. and integration into PJM on January 1, 2012. The service agreements are effective January 1, 2012.
02.07.2012 Docket No. ER12-745-000 (PDF)
On February 7, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-745-000, accepting revisions to Schedule 12-Appendix of the PJM Tariff. The proposed revisions update the annual cost allocations for Regional Facilities and Necessary Lower Voltage Facilities included in the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan to reflect changes in peak loads for the 12 months ending October 31, 2011, and to reflect changes required by the Commission’s Opinion No. 503 regarding the allocation of these costs to Merchant Transmission Providers. The revisions are effective January 1, 2012, subject to further proceedings to address issues raised on remand of the Commission’s Opinion No. 494 and Opinion No. 494-A.
02.03.2012 Docket No. ER12-640-000 (PDF)
On February 3, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-640-000, accepting a Notice of Cancellation of an Interconnection Service Agreement (Lancaster ISA) among PJM, Lancaster Wind Farm, LLC (Lancaster) and Commonwealth Edison Company. PJM notified Lancaster in a letter, dated June 7, 2011, that it was in breach of the Lancaster ISA pursuant to section 6.1 of the ISA for failing to initiate construction of its facilities on or before April 15, 2011, and advised Lancaster that failure to cure the breach within 30 days would result in termination of the Lancaster ISA. PJM notified Lancaster, in a letter dated September 6, 2011, that it was in default of the Lancaster ISA and that the Lancaster ISA would be terminated effective September 14, 2011. The Notice of Cancellation is effective September 14, 2011.
02.02.2012 Docket No. ER12-706-000 (PDF)
On February 2, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-706-000, accepting an executed Interim Upgrade Construction Service Agreement (Interim UCSA) among PJM, Exelon Generation Company, LLC (new service customer) and Commonwealth Edison Company (transmission owner). PJM indicated that the Interim UCSA is necessary so that the transmission owner can begin design, procurement and construction of the new service customer funded upgrades for the 345 kV line 15502 in advance of executing a final Upgrade Construction Service Agreement. The Interim UCSA is effective November 28, 2011.
01.31.2012 Docket No. ER12-622-000 (PDF)
On January 27, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-622-000, the Commission issued an Order accepting PJM Original Service Agreement No. 3151 - Mutual Operating Agreement between Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) and Town of Windsor, North Carolina (Windsor). The Service Agreement is accepted for filing, effective January 1, 2012, subject to a revision to be filed within 30 days of the date of the order to correct the eTariff metadata error in which “PJM SA No. 3150” has been extraneously added to the section title.
01.30.2012 Docket No. ER12-513-000 (PDF)
On January 30, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-513-000, the Commission issued an Order accepting most of the RPM triennial review and performance assessment tariff changes submitted by PJM, effective January 31, 2012; suspending certain tariff changes related to cost of new entry (“CONE”) estimates for combustion turbine and combined cycle power plants for five months, to become effective June 30, 2012; and rejecting tariff changes concerning use of the median Net CONE from five CONE areas as the Net CONE for the PJM region. The Commission ordered PJM to file, within 30 days of its order, two compliance filings with revised tariff records reflecting removal of the proposed gross CONE values and the median Net CONE approach for the RTO region; and putting the suspended gross CONE values into effect.
01.27.2012 Docket No. ER12-681-000 (PDF)
On January 27, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-681-000, the Commission issued an Order accepting revisions filed by PJM and Carolina Power & Light Company to their Joint Operating Agreement to: (1) allow more time to develop a method to address situations where non-firm power flow on one system causes parallel flow on the adjacent system; (2) make ministerial revision to remove an inadvertent inclusion of drafting commentary; and (3) remove a redundant requirement to develop a list of generation and transmission facilities that may have an impact on the adjacent system. These revisions were accepted for filing, effective January 1, 2012, as requested.
01.26.2012 Docket No. ER12-533-000 (PDF)
On January 26, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-533-000, accepting an executed ICSA among PJM, Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. (Iberdrola), and Virginia Electric and Power Company. PJM indicated, among other things, that the ICSA is being utilized with a conforming Interim ISA that facilitates the interconnection of Iberdrola’s Desert Wind Farm in North Carolina to the transmission system. The ICSA is effective November 4, 2011.
01.25.2012 ER12-731-000 (PDF)
On January 25, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-731-000, accepting a Notice of Cancellation of the executed WMPA entered into among PJM, Earl F. Stahl Jr. and Public Service Electric and Gas Company. The Notice of Cancellation is effective December 8, 2011.
01.24.2012 Docket No. ER12-697-000 (PDF)
On January 24, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-697-000, accepting an executed WMPA entered into among PJM, Chesapeake Renewable Energy, LLC (Chesapeake Renewable) and Delmarva Power and Light Company (DPL). PJM submitted the WMPA for filing because Chesapeake Renewable intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to the DPL distribution facilities. The WMPA is effective December 1, 2011.
01.24.2012 Docket No. ER12-698-000 (PDF)
On January 24, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-698-000, accepting an executed WMPA among PJM, Garden Solar, LLC (Garden Solar) and Jersey Central Power and Light Company, A FirstEnergy Company (JCP&L). PJM submitted the WMPA for filing because Garden Solar intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to the JCP&L distribution facilities. The WMPA is effective December 1, 2011.
01.20.2012 Docket No. ER12-529-000 (PDF)
On January 20, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-529-000, the Commission approved PJM's proposed ministerial revision to Section 15.1.6 c (a) of the Operating Agreement to remove the word "terminated" in relation to characterizing a Member who, upon an event of default, will have their forward positions liquidated in accordance with the Tariff and Operating Agreement, with an effective date of February 6, 2012, as requested.
01.20.2012 Docket No. ER12-525-000 (PDF)
On January 20, 2012, in Docket No. ER12-525-000, FERC issued a Letter Order accepting PJM’s December 2, 2011 submittal of revisions to the Markets Settlement Section of its Emergency Load Response Program provisions set forth in Attachment K-Appendix of the Tariff and Schedule 1 of the Operating Agreement concerning the allocation of demand response emergency costs and charges relating to deviations from the number of megawatts a resource cleared in the PJM Day-ahead Energy Market and the actual number of megawatts the resource provided in real-time, effective February 1, 2012 as requested.
01.19.2012 Docket No. ER11-12-001 and ER11-3445-000 (PDF)
On January 19, 2012, in Docket Nos. ER11-12-001 and ER11-3445-000, FERC issued an Order granting DC Energy Mid-Atlantic, LLC’s Request for Rehearing and rejecting PJM’s April 27, 2011 Compliance Filing submitted in response to the Commission's Order issued on March 30, 2011 regarding PJM's proposed revisions to the calculation of marginal losses. The Commission determined that it is not just and reasonable to limit the calculation of marginal line losses to only Reliability Monitored Facilities. PJM will file revised tariff records to remove the revisions relating to calculating marginal losses only for Reliability Monitored Facilities, but which retain the proposed revisions relating to generator step-up transformers, within 30 days of the date of the order.
01.19.2012 Docket No. ER12-448-000 (PDF)
On January 19, 2011, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-448-000, accepting an executed Interim Upgrade Construction Service Agreement (Interim UCSA) among PJM, Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon LLC) and Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd). PJM indicated that the Interim UCSA is necessary to begin construction of the customer funded upgrades in advance of executing a final Upgrade Construction Service Agreement. The Interim UCSA is effective October 20, 2011.
01.18.2012 Docket No. ER11-4628-000 (PDF)
On January 18, 2012, in Docket No. ER11-4628-000, the Commission issued a Notice establishing a Technical Conference for February 14, 2012, to explore the issues presented by PJM’s September 23, 2011 filing to support the development of price responsive demand.
01.17.2012 Docket Nos. ER11-2875-004 and EL11-20-002 (PDF)
On January 17, 2012, the Commission issued an Order granting rehearing for the limited purpose of further consideration of the matters raised or to be raised in the requests for rehearing of the Commission's November 17, 2011 order in Docket Nos. ER11-2875-004 and EL11-20-002.
01.13.2012 Docket No. ER12-531-000 (PDF)
On January 13, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-531-000, accepting an executed non-conforming interim Interconnection Service Agreement (Chesterfield Interim ISA) and an Interconnection Construction Service Agreement (Chesterfield ICSA) among PJM, Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO), and VEPCO. PJM submitted the Chesterfield Interim ISA for filing because it contains non-standard terms and conditions related to waiver of security in Interim ISA § 4(a). PJM requested, among other things, that the Commission permit VEPCO to set the Initial Security Amount required under § 4(a) of the Specifications for the Chesterfield Interim ISA at zero (0) dollars, since the interconnection customer and interconnected transmission owner are the same legal entity. The agreements facilitate the interconnection of the 1575 MW Chesterfield Combined Cycle Power Station located in Chesterfield County, Virginia to the PJM transmission system. The agreements are effective November 4, 2011.
01.13.2012 Docket No. ER11-4402-001 (PDF)
On January 13, 2011, in Docket No. ER11-4402-001, the Commission issued an Order accepting PJM’s proposed Tariff revisions providing additional means for black start service providers to recover incremental costs associated with providing black start service, to be effective November 1, 2011, subject to limited conditions
01.12.2012 Docket No. ER12-616-000 (PDF)
On January 12, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-616-000, accepting an executed WMPA entered into among PJM, Constellation Solar Federal, LLC (Constellation) and PSE&G. PJM also submitted a WMPA entered into among Earl F. Stahl Jr. (Wholesale Market Participant) and PSE&G. PJM submitted two separate WMPAs because the Wholesale Market Participant, Earl Stahl had assigned a portion of its project to a new Wholesale Market Participant, Constellation. The agreements are effective November 18, 2011.
01.05.2012 Docket No. ER12-490-000 (PDF)
On January 5, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-490-000, accepting an executed WMPA among Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and PSE&G. PJM indicated that PSE&G intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a 0.60 MW solar facility connected to PSE&G distribution facilities located in Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey. Also, the WMPA is a contractual means to address a generator interconnection request through the distribution system, both to enable PJM to properly track and study such an interconnection and to facilitate the generator’s participation in PJM’s wholesale markets. The WMPA is effective November 1, 2011.
01.03.2012 Docket No. ER12-474-000 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-474-000, accepting an executed Interim Upgrade Construction Service Agreement (Interim UCSA) among PJM, Exelon Generation Company, L.L.C (ExGen) and Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd). PJM indicated that the Interim UCSA was filed because ExGen wishes to begin construction of certain customer-funded upgrades prior to executing a final Upgrade Construction Service Agreement as contained in Attachment GG of the PJM Tariff. The Interim UCSA is effective October 28, 2011.
01.03.2012 Docket No. ER12-535-000 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket No. ER12-535-000, accepting an executed Interim ISA and an executed ICSA among PJM, Virginia Electric and Power Company (Interconnection Customer), Virginia Electric and Power Company (Interconnected Transmission Owner). PJM indicated that both the Interim ISA and the ICSA facilitate the interconnection and construction of 1,551 MW located in Brunswick County, MD to the PJM transmission system. The agreements are effective November 4, 2011.
01.03.2012 Docket Nos. ER12-171-000 and ER12-171-001 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket Nos. ER12-171-000, et al., accepting an executed PSE&G WMPA among PJM, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (Wholesale Market Participant) and Public Service Electric and Gas Company (Transmission Owner). PJM indicated that the PSE&G WMPA was submitted for filing because the Wholesale Market Participant intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to the Transmission Owner distribution facilities. The PSE&G WMPA is effective September 22, 2011.
01.03.2012 Docket Nos. ER12-175-000 and ER12-175-001 (PDF)
On January 3, 2012, the Commission issued a Letter Order, in Docket Nos. ER12-175-000, et al., accepting an executed Wholesale Market Participation Agreement (PSE&G WMPA) among PJM, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (Wholesale Market Participant) and Public Service Electric and Gas Company (Transmission Owner). PJM indicated that the PSE&G WMPA was submitted for filing because the Wholesale Market Participant intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to the Transmission Owner distribution facilities. The PSE&G WMPA is effective September 22, 2011.
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