Markets & Operations

Planning Center

Planning Center is PJM’s planning tool, which is made up of a suite of modules that allow members to work with data required for long-range planning studies.

Competitive Planner

Competitive Planner makes it easier for transmission owners and transmission developers to submit proposals through PJM’s competitive transmission development process windows. Previously developers would need to fill out an Excel file that would then be uploaded securely. It provides an interactive form that allows developers to provide information more easily and accurately, while also securely submitting that information to PJM from a single location.

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Training

User Guide PDF 6.19.2020
Competitive Planner Demonstration   7.28.2020
Competitive Planner Tool Proposal Example: Redacted | Full PDF 7.7.2020

Gen Model

The Gen Model module lets generation owners upload the required data for NERC’s MOD-032-1 standard. This standard establishes consistent modeling data requirements and reporting procedures needed to develop planning horizon models. These models are necessary to support reliability analyses of the transmission system.

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User Guide PDF 5.2.2024
Gen Model Demo WEB  8.31.2020
PJM MOD-032 Steady State, Dynamics & Short Circuit modeling Data Requirements & Reporting Procedures PDF
1.30.2023
Read Only – 2022 Gen Model Form Spreadsheet XLS
4.18.2022
Gen Model: Diagrams | Diagram Definitions PDF 2.5.2021

Queue Point

Queue Point allows interconnection customers to submit new interconnection requests, as well as to make changes to existing requests.

Failing to submit a complete interconnection request and/or missing the various interconnection request due dates as set forth in the Open Access Transmission Tariff may result in your interconnection request being terminated and withdrawn. Please see Part IV of the Tariff WEB | PDF for interconnection request submittal and/or deficiency review details.

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User Guide PDF
7.10.2023
Take a Tour PDF
7.10.2023
Share Feature User Guide PDF 12.9.2024


Queue Scope

Queue Scope is an interconnection screening tool that enables users to evaluate placement of future generators even before formally entering the PJM interconnection process. The tool screens potential points of interconnection (POI) on the PJM system by assessing grid impacts and estimating transmission facility loading based on the amount of MW injection or withdrawal at a given POI. The results of the tool are informational in nature and provide users with the capability to run the analysis in either a public or secure platform. Use of the Queue Scope tool and the results thereof are subject to the Legal Disclaimer below.

Disclaimer Notice

The PJM Queue Scope tool (“Queue Scope”) is intended to provide Interconnection Customers and other interested parties (“Users”) with estimates of grid congestion at the given points of interconnection within the PJM footprint. Queue Scope is an informational tool and is not intended to be a substitute for actual interconnection studies conducted by PJM as part of the PJM interconnection process. Queue Scope results are not reflective of current PJM system conditions, and may not account for all study assumptions and considerations that would otherwise be considered in the formal interconnection study process. Queue Scope only addresses thermal impacts on the system and it does not include voltage, stability, or short circuit constraints. Queue Scope and the Queue Scope data is provided “as is” and PJM hereby disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. PJM specifically disclaims all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and all warranties arising from course of dealing, usage, or trade practice. PJM makes no warranty of any kind that the data, or any products or results of its use, will meet Users or any other person’s requirements, operate without interruption, achieve any intended result, be compatible or work with any software, system or other services or be secure, accurate, complete, free of harmful code, or error free. PJM may also from time to time update, supplement or delete the information, services and/or the resources contained in this website and reserves the right to make such changes without prior notification. In no event will PJM be liable for any reason under any legal or equitable theory, including, but not limited to, breach of contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, and otherwise, for any (a) consequential, incidental, indirect, exemplary, special, enhanced, or punitive damages, (b) increased costs, diminution in value, or lost business, production, revenues, or profits, (c) loss of goodwill or reputation, (d) use, inability to use, loss, interruption, delay, or recovery of any data or breach of data or system security, or (e) cost of replacement services, in each case regardless of whether User or any other persons were advised of the possibility of such losses or damages or such losses or damages were otherwise foreseeable. At any time, and for any lawful purpose, PJM may monitor, intercept, record and search any communications or data transiting or stored on Queue Scope. At PJM’s sole discretion, PJM may disclose pertinent information to the U.S. Government and its authorized representatives to protect the security of critical infrastructure and key resources, ensure information security, or to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request. Users expressly consent to the terms and conditions contained in this Disclaimer Notice. Users have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding communications or data transiting or stored on Queue Scope. Unauthorized use of Queue Scope may be subject to criminal prosecution or civil proceedings.

Tabular Application
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Geospatial Application
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Training

User Guide PDF
8.14.2024
Take a Tour: Tabular | Geospatial PDF
8.14.2024
Video Tutorial
 

Educational Recordings

Tech Change Forum - 11.16.2023
 
Tech Change Forum - 10.18.2022



TO Planner

TO Planner allows Transmission Owners to submit non-competitive baseline projects and M-3 supplemental projects, track their submitted project status, and interact with PJM transmission planning through the web portal.

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Training

TO Planner Demo WEB
 
User Guide - Non-competitive Baseline Projects PDF 
4.26.2024
TO Planner M-3 Supplemental User Guide PDF 
4.26.2024
TO Planner Demo: M-3 Supplemental WEB
 


TC Planner

The Transmission Cost Planner (TC Planner) assists PJM stakeholders with understanding current transmission costs and estimating future transmission costs. It offers pertinent details for PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) baseline and supplemental upgrades. The tool allows for the estimation of the annual revenue requirement and monthly transmission cost charges for the present month and any chosen future month within a ten-year time frame, specific to a responsible transmission zone.

Disclaimer Notice

PJM expressly disclaims any obligation to correct or update information provided herein or any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, as to any information or other matters whatsoever arising from or relating to the information. Entities relying on the information contained herein do so at their own risk. In no event shall PJM be liable for any damages arising out of any use of the information contained herein.

Further, the PJM Transmission Owners make no representation, express or implied, as to the accuracy or reliability of any information, the calculator or calculator results and, further, expressly disclaim any liability for any damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of any reliance on or use of any and all information, including but not limited to that information contained in or resulting from any use of PJM's calculator.

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Training

Video Tutorial  
User Guide PDF
4.8.2024
Take a Tour PDF 11.13.2024