Transmission owners in PJM Interconnection will not be given more time to respond to “complex” issues tied to a directive for PJM to allocate more widely the costs of transmission projects solely responsive to local needs. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied Tuesday PJM transmission owners’ request for a four-week extension to November 25 for filing comments on what they referred to as “three distinct, but interrelated topics” regarding utilities’ obligations to report transmission reliability planning criteria on FERC Form No. 715. Local planning criteria projects, by definition, do not address PJM regional criteria or FERC-approved reliability standards. PJM transmission owners convinced the commission in 2016 to approve their proposal allowing PJM to limit cost allocation for local planning criteria projects to the PJM zone where the transmission owner is located, regardless of the projects’ usage or recognized benefits to others.
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