LS Power’s cost-containment proposal remains largely intact and on schedule to return for a vote at the PJM MRC.

PJM staff completed an analysis on the reliability impact of the retirements of FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse, Perry and Beaver Valley nuclear plants.

Stakeholders plowed through several hours of material at a special PJM Planning Committee session on whether the RTO should include cost containment provisions in its analysis of competitive bids for new transmission.

PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

PJM staff highlighted procedural and process challenges of adding cost containment as a factor in transmission planning decisions.

American Electric Power’s portion of Duff-Rockport-Coleman project has been placed on hold and will not be modeled in the 2018 RTEP, PJM told the TEAC.

American Municipal Power contended that PJM’s limited review of transmission owner projects is not rigorous enough to ensure the RTO is avoiding unnecessary costs.

Stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting pushed PJM to expand its scope on several transmission-related issues.

PJM remains disinclined to create procedures to analyze any other cost containment guarantees beyond construction cost caps.

PJM postponed a planned vote at last week's Planning Committee on its proposal to adjust the analysis process for market efficiency transmission projects.