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Linden VFT

NYISO ↔ PJM · Variable frequency transformer

Variable frequency transformers at Linden, New Jersey that control flow between PJM and Staten Island without converting to DC.

Now
315 MWPJM → NYISO
NYISO · as of Sep 26, 2:20 PM EDT
Between
NYISO and PJM
Technology
Variable frequency transformer
Rating
315 MW
In service
2009
Published by
NYISO and PJM
Open on the map

What it is carrying

Each operator's own reading, turned into a direction. Where both markets publish the tie, the two should agree.

As NYISO reports it
315 MW · PJM → NYISO

limit this way 315 MW · 0 MW left to schedule · as of Sep 26, 2:20 PM EDT

As PJM reports it
313 MW · PJM → NYISO

as of Sep 26, 1:55 PM EDT

Price across the seamReal-time · EDT
Reading prices…

Last 30 days

Hourly flow, signed so that up is power leaving the market.

As NYISO reports it
-315MW
71-136-344Aug 27, 2 PMSep 26, 2 PM

Above zero: NYISO → PJM. Below: the reverse.

Hardware

Its terminals. US terminals are placed on the substation HIFLD's national dataset names for them.

Converter
Linden, NJ

40.6240, -74.2113 · 230 kV

Substation
Goethals, NY

Not in HIFLD's dataset

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Usual direction
PJM → NYISO in 99% of hours

0% out, 99% in, 0% idle across 721 hours

Average
289 MW · PJM → NYISO
When busy
315 MW

95th percentile of hourly flow either way

Peak NYISO → PJM
43 MW
Peak PJM → NYISO
315 MW
Direction changes
2
Hours near its rating
550 of 721

At 95% or more of 315 MW

The average day
0:006:0012:0018:0023:00
Mean flow by the market's local hour. Up: NYISO → PJM. Down: PJM → NYISO.