In advance of the most extreme cold arriving Tuesday and Wednesday – when electricity demand could set winter records – PJM has implemented a number of procedures to enhance the flexibility for operators to react to real-time and forecast system conditions. These include:
-- Cold Weather Alert: A routine procedure PJM issues in advance of significantly cold weather conditions expected for all or parts of the region PJM serves
-- Conservative Operations: Gives system operators more flexibility to make decisions to maintain reliability by increasing reserves and/or reducing power flows on selected facilities. There are any number of weather, environmental, physical security or cybersecurity events that may require PJM to operate more conservatively.
-- A Low Voltage Alert remains in effect through 10 a.m. Thursday to prepare for heavy demand and the potential for tight system conditions. This proactive measure is meant to allow as much electricity as possible to be carried throughout the transmission system, and is a tool in PJM’s toolbox to make sure customers have the power they need throughout the cold spell.
This alert signals to transmission/generation dispatchers to halt all deferrable maintenance or testing affecting capacity or critical transmission. In addition, any monitoring or control maintenance work that may affect operation of the system is paused.
No public action is required as a result of any of these procedures.
Click Here for a copy of PJM’s update.
(PJM electric prices at 7:38 a.m. Jan. 21; Generation Chart at 5:00 a.m. Jan. 21, latest available)
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