[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 145 (Thursday, July 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45249-45250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19087]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER11-3322-000]


PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.; Supplemental Notice of Staff 
Technical Conference

    On June 21, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) announced that a staff Technical Conference on Performance 
Measurement of Demand Response in the PJM Capacity Market will be held 
on July 29, 2011, beginning at 9 a.m. (EDT) in the Commission Meeting 
Room at the Commission's headquarters, located at 888 First Street, 
NE., Washington, DC 20426. The technical conference will be led by 
Commission staff, and Commissioners may be in attendance. The 
conference will be open for the public to attend and advance 
registration is not required.
    Attached to this supplemental notice is an agenda for the 
conference. If any changes are made, the revised agenda will be posted 
prior to the event on the Calendar of Events on the Commission's Web 
site, http://www.ferc.gov.
    The conference will be transcribed. Transcripts will be available 
immediately for a fee from Ace Reporting Company (202-347-3700 or 1-
800-336-6646). A free webcast of this event is also available through 
http://www.ferc.gov. Anyone with Internet access who desires to view 
this event can do so by navigating to http://www.ferc.gov's Calendar of 
Events and locating this event in the calendar. The event will contain 
a link to its webcast. The Capitol Connection provides technical 
support for the free webcasts. If you have any questions, visit http://www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 993-3100.
    FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please 
send an e-mail to [email protected] or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106 
with the required accommodations.
    Parties seeking additional information regarding this conference 
should contact Tristan Cohen at [email protected] or (202) 502-
6598.

    Dated: July 22, 2011.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.

Appendix

Performance Measurement of Demand Response in the PJM Capacity Market; 
ER11-3322-000

July 29, 2011

Agenda

9 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Greeting and Opening Remarks

9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Discussion on Reliability Issues

    1. Whether the customer baseline load (CBL) or peak load 
contribution (PLC) is a more accurate capacity market performance 
measure of what a demand response customer would have consumed in 
the absence of an instruction to reduce load.
    2. Whether the current PJM add-back process under the guaranteed 
load drop (GLD) option, which is used to calculate peak load for 
capacity for the following delivery year, accurately reflects the 
fact that the load reduction of an over-performing demand response 
customer (i.e. a customer that provides a level of response greater 
than the MW nominated for it in the capacity auction) has been used 
to support an under-performing customer (i.e. a customer that 
provides a level of response less than the nominated MW) in a 
portfolio aggregated to meet the capacity commitment.
    3. Whether PJM dispatchers account for PLCs during an emergency.
    4. Whether any load in PJM can be at load levels in excess of 
PLC during an emergency.

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Panelists

     Chris Norton, Director of Regulatory Affairs, American 
Municipal Power Inc.
     Frank Lacey, Vice President Regulatory, Markets and 
Government Relations, Comverge, Inc.
     Bruce Campbell, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Demand 
Response Services, Johnson Controls, Inc.
     Marie Pieniazek, Chief Operating Officer, Energy 
Curtailment Specialists
     Donald J. Sipe, Attorney, Preti Flaherty Beliveau & 
Pachios LLP representing EnerNOC, Inc.
    [rtarr9] Dr. Joseph E. Bowring, Market Monitor, Independent 
Market Monitor for PJM
    [rtarr9] Frederick (``Stu'') Bresler, Vice President--Market 
Operations and Demand Resources, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

11:15 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Break

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Discussion on Capacity Obligations

    5. Discuss the capacity obligations of end-use customers whose 
demand response resources have been committed in a prior RPM 
auction.
    6. Whether a demand response resource should be obligated to 
reduce below its PLC during an emergency event, even if the 
magnitude of supply that the resource is providing is otherwise 
equivalent to its capacity commitment.
    7. Whether the PLC limit on nominations in the capacity auction 
should serve as a basis for requiring load reductions of capacity 
resources to be below PLC.

Panelists

    [rtarr9] Chris Norton, Director of Regulatory Affairs, American 
Municipal Power Inc.
    [rtarr9] Donald J. Sipe, Attorney, Preti Flaherty Beliveau & 
Pachios LLP representing EnerNOC, Inc.
    [rtarr9] Dr. Joseph E. Bowring, Market Monitor, Independent 
Market Monitor for PJM
    [rtarr9] Frederick (``Stu'') Bresler, Vice President--Market 
Operations and Demand Resources, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
    [rtarr9] Robert A. Weishaar, Jr., Counsel to PJM Industrial 
Customer Coalition, McNees, Wallace & Nurick LLC
    [rtarr9] Audrey Zibelman, President, Chief Executive Officer, 
and Founder, Viridity Energy, Inc.

12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Discussion on Load Reductions and Incentives

    8. Whether the same MW reduction that is voluntarily made by a 
peak shaving customer in order to reduce capacity costs should also 
be eligible to receive incentives from PJM's Load Management 
programs.
    9. Whether the current GLD option provides an incentive for 
aggregators to offset under-performing resources with resources that 
over-perform.

Panelists

    [rtarr9] Chris Norton, Director of Regulatory Affairs, American 
Municipal Power Inc.
    [rtarr9] Kevin Evans, VP & GM, Demand Response Services, Johnson 
Controls, Inc.
    [rtarr9] Jonathan Falk, Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting 
representing EnerNOC, Inc.
    [rtarr9] Dr. Joseph E. Bowring, Market Monitor, Independent 
Market Monitor for PJM
    [rtarr9] Andrew L. Ott, Senior Vice President--Markets, PJM 
Interconnection, L.L.C.
    [rtarr9] Audrey Zibelman, President, Chief Executive Officer, 
and Founder, Viridity Energy, Inc.

2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Discussion on the Impact of PJM's Proposal

    10. Whether PJM's proposal undermines the GLD methodology.
    11. Whether PJM's proposal unduly discriminates against 
resources on days other than the coincident peak days and whether 
PJM's proposal negatively affects Annual Demand Resource 
aggregations.

Panelists

    [rtarr9] John Rossi, Senior Vice President of Business 
Development, Comverge, Inc.
    [rtarr9] David Dardis, Constellation
    [rtarr9] Marie Pieniazek, Chief Operating Officer, Energy 
Curtailment Specialists
    [rtarr9] Kenneth D. Schisler, Vice President of Regulatory 
Affairs, EnerNOC, Inc.
    [rtarr9] Dr. Joseph E. Bowring, Market Monitor, Independent 
Market Monitor for PJM
    [rtarr9] Andrew L. Ott, Senior Vice President--Markets, PJM 
Interconnection, L.L.C.
    [rtarr9] Audrey Zibelman, President, Chief Executive Officer, 
and Founder, Viridity Energy, Inc.

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