PJM defends plan to include key gas-plant costs in offers

摘要

PJM Interconnection is standing behind its plan to allow natural gasfiredplants to include maintenance expenses in their cost-basedenergy market offers, saying the change is needed to put the plants onan equal footing with other types of generators that already put suchcosts into their offers.The plan is significant because the grid operator’s market monitorhas warned that it could boost energy prices. The proposal also failedto win support in PJM’s stakeholder process, but PJM decided to moveforward anyway.