A round-up of news from the PJM Operating Committee on Oct. 7, 2014.

PJM’s plans to conduct winter tests of infrequently used generators could cost as much as $15.9 million, officials told the Operating Committee last week.

A round-up of news from the PJM Operating Committee on Sept. 4, 2014.

PJM is hesitating on plans to introduce more sophisticated modeling of combined-cycle plants because of an inability to quantify potential savings and reports of escalating prices.

PJM said the Dooms-Lexington 500-kV line in Virginia will begin an extended outage next month and through winter for a rebuild of the 40-mile span.

PJM has created a new emergency procedure and is testing a software fix following poor generator response to a minimum generation event July 5, officials told the OC last week.

PJM dropped a proposal to consider changes to the regulation market after receiving a cool reaction from stakeholders and the Market Monitor.

PJM officials last week defended their practice of creating interfaces to capture operator actions in response to voltage problems, saying they can’t guarantee the constraints will be modeled in FTR auctions.

A round-up of news from the PJM Operating Committee.

PJM has created a closed loop interface to capture the pricing of demand response in a transmission sub-zone spanning the Pennsylvania-Ohio border near New Castle, Pa.