April 19, 2024

Here are some of the stories RTO Insider plans on having for you next week: 

Michael Brooks will attend FERC’s monthly open meeting, which will feature a presentation from NERC and commission staff on the January winter storms ... but NOT a final rule on transmission planning. In an unusual move, the commission has scheduled a special open meeting for May 13 specifically for that rule, as well as a rule implementing its backstop siting authority. 

Michael will also cover the NYISO Management Committee, which will vote on an ISO proposal to allow using five-minute prices to estimate net EAS revenues, used to determine the ICAP demand curve. 

Jon Lamson will report on the NEPOOL Transmission Committee as it discusses updates to ISO-NE’s Order 2023 compliance package to account for Order 2023-A. 

Devin Leith-Yessian will relay the news form three PJM meetings. The Markets and Reliability Committee will consider endorsing manual revisions to implement PJM’s long-term regional transmission planning, while the Risk Management Committee will discuss issue charges seeking to revise the RTO’s rules around minimum capitalization and FTR credit enhancement. Also, the Interconnection Process Subcommittee will continue working on proposals to revise how capacity interconnection rights can be transferred from deactivating generators to planned resources in the interconnection queue. 

Tom Kleckner will gather the details from ERCOT’s Board of Directors and committee meetings. The board and its committees will consider a controversial rule change for inverter-based resources’ ride-through requirement that ERCOT staff says is necessary to maintain the grid’s reliability. 

Ayla Burnett will follow along with the CAISO Resource Adequacy Modeling and Program Design Working Group, where staff and stakeholders continue to work through the details of transforming the Resource Adequacy Program to accommodate more renewables in the Extended Day-Ahead Market. 

Robert Mullin will be in Denver from April 24 to 26 to cover the spring joint meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation and the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (CREPC-WIRAB). 

Holden Mann will have a story on Texas RE’s Spring Standards, Security and Reliability Workshop, where staff will discuss challenges to grid reliability including cybersecurity, extreme weather and gas-electric interdependence. 

James Downing will have the details from the Energy Bar Association Annual Meeting, which will feature two full days of panels on the legal issues facing the energy industry. 

The details on all the meetings above can be found on our calendar. 

The RTO Insider team will also have a bunch of other news, so be sure to check out the website and our daily emails throughout the week!