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Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage in RTO...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously rejected Maryland regulators’ attempt to subsidize Competitive Power Ventures’ combined cycle plant in Charles County, saying it interfered with FERC’s jurisdiction over wholesale electric markets. The court upheld a ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which...

By Suzanne Herel The PJM Nominating Committee is recommending Dean Oskvig, retired CEO of Black & Veatch, and Mark Takahashi, CFO of Ascendant Group, for election to the Board of Managers. Dean Oskvig Source: Black & Veatch They would fill the spots left vacant by Richard Lahey and Jean Kinsey...

PJM is proposing to continue winter testing but stop compensating Capacity Performance players for it. Operating Committee Chairman Mike Bryson said the idea is that those participants would be expected to factor the cost into their offers. After some members questioned that plan, Bryson said he would take their comments...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM moved the day-ahead energy market offer deadline to 10:30 a.m. from noon without incident April 1, PJM’s Adam Keech told the Market Implementation Committee Wednesday. “We didn’t have many people complaining, ‘We missed the window,’” he said. Offers were cleared in 2.5 hours on average,...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Interconnection customers would be required to provide more documentation earlier to ensure consideration of their projects under proposed changes to the queue submittal process. The recommendations came out of the Earlier Queue Submittal Task Force, which was convened after current rules — which charge nonrefundable fees...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Mike Kormos, the departing chair of the Markets and Reliability Committee, couldn’t attend his last meeting because of a scheduling conflict, said CEO Andy Ott, who lauded his colleague for his nearly three decades of work at PJM. Kormos © RTO Insider “As he and I grew...

By Suzanne Herel Eleven generating companies, including Calpine, Dynegy and NRG, have asked FERC to expand PJM’s minimum offer price rule in time for May’s 2019/20 Base Residual Auction, as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is poised to rule on power purchase agreements for FirstEnergy and American Electric Power.

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage in RTO...

By Suzanne Herel FERC last week again rebuffed American Transmission Systems Inc.’s bid to recover the costs of its switch from MISO to PJM. American Transmission Systems Inc. (ATSI) Worker in Bucket Truck (Source: ATSI) The commission denied ATSI’s request to rehear two 2011 orders in which it ruled that...