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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Jen Tribulski explained the rulemaking implications of FERC’s lack of quorum at Wednesday’s Market Implementation Committee meeting, using the RTO’s seasonal capacity proposal as an example. In January, PJM filed a response to questions from the commission. “The response resets the 60-day time clock for that...

Endorsements Sail Through by Acclamation VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Stakeholders moved quickly through PJM’s requested endorsements at Thursday’s Planning Committee meeting, approving all three by acclamation. In addition to largely administrative updates to Manual 22, the committee endorsed: The sunsetting of the Earlier Queue Submittal Task Force, whose Tariff revisions...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM has made several changes to its proposed planning process for competitive transmission projects in response to stakeholder feedback, staff said Friday. At a special Planning Committee meeting on redesigning the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan and the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee, PJM’s...

By Ted Caddell This time last year, Exelon had its hands full. The company was deep in a problematic $6.8 billion acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc. while bogged down in a two-front battle trying to get nuclear subsidies for plants in Illinois and New York. Things look much brighter for...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — If you thought the ending of Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup was electrifying, you’re not alone. The event had a noticeable impact on electricity demand. Just after the game started at about 6:30 p.m. on the East Coast, PJM’s demand dipped below the...

By Rory D. Sweeney FERC on Friday accepted PJM’s compliance filing on its fuel-cost policies for generating units but required the RTO to make another compliance filing to address a number of additional details (ER16-372-002). The commission sided with PJM on several issues that have generated discussion at stakeholder meetings,...

FERC on Thursday accepted PJM’s proposal to exempt transmission facilities that operate below 200 kV from its competitive proposal process (ER16-1335). In April, PJM proposed the exemption, which designates the incumbent transmission owner to address such projects. The RTO then clarified in a compliance filing requested by FERC that all...

By William Opalka Preparing for the loss of its quorum, FERC last week issued an order delegating additional authority to staff and approved two massive natural gas pipelines that could have languished for months after former Chairman Norman Bay’s resignation. The commission granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Environmental activists opposing fracking and pipeline expansions regularly disrupted FERC meetings during Norman Bay’s two-and-a-half-year tenure as a FERC commissioner and chairman. On at least one occasion, activists took their protests to the street outside Bay’s D.C. house. The activists contended FERC was shirking...

By Rory D. Sweeney FERC last week rejected rehearing requests over revisions to PJM’s financial transmission rights market, ruling in time for the RTO to implement the changes in its 2017 auction revenue rights allocation (EL16-6). The commission’s Jan. 31 order upheld its Sept. 15 ruling that modeling assumptions PJM...