News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: PJM, PPL, and a new demand response trade group - the Advanced Energy Management Alliance.

PJM is consolidating its rules for establishing dynamic transfers, which allow resources in one balancing authority to be operated as if they were in another BA region.

The Planning and Operating committees endorsed changes to the following PJM Manuals: 7, 14A ,21 and 40.

PJM provided members a glimpse last week of the new visualization tools that will soon be available to transmission operators as a result of the deployment of synchrophasors.

PJM plans to survey generation owners to determine what can be done to increase resource flexibility.

PJM announced tonight that it will ask members to pay more than $2 million in defaults by two retail marketers unable to cover high power costs during January’s arctic cold.

PJM operators dispatched demand response this morning after cutting voltages and calling on spinning reserves last night as frigid temperatures stressed generators and created record loads across the RTO.

PJM’s assessment for the 2013-14 winter months identified no reliability issues.

Last month's GridEX II security drill was a valuable test of PJM’s emergency response procedures but lacked in realism, participants said.

The Operating Committee last week endorsed changes to Manuals 3A and 13 while the Market Implementation Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 28.