Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from the EIA, EPA, FERC, NERC, Congress, and other national news.

FERC last week approved a new reliability standard that will allow PJM and other transmission planners to plan for “non-consequential” load loss following a single contingency.

FERC's technical conference on capacity markets elicited sharply differing views on a variety of design concepts and technical issues.

Six years after RPM’s inception,FERC convened a technical conference last week to ask the question: How’s the capacity market working for you?

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week approved a final rule extending reliability standards to generator tie-lines and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on standards regarding generator verification.

The nomination of Ron Binz to the FERC chairmanship was in jeopardy last week after coal-state lawmakers took him to task at his confirmation hearing.

WASHINGTON – FERC today rejected settlements by FirstEnergy and Duke Energy affiliates over their moves to PJM, ruling that the companies unfairly imposed transition costs.

A Toronto entrepreneur announced plans to build a 1,000 MW merchant transmission line to deliver power from Ontario to PJM.

Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: FirstEnergy, NRG, Duke Energy, and Pepco.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Friday cited nine PJM nuclear plants for additional scrutiny in its mid-year gradings of the nation’s nuclear fleet.