PJM stakeholders heard a first read of the RTO’s packages for mitigating and avoiding critical infrastructure under NERC rules.

PJM stakeholders endorsed an installed reserve margin of 14.4%, down from 14.8% in 2019, along with new winter weekly reserve targets.

The PJM Planning and Transmission Expansion Advisory committees discussed the proposed installed reserve margin for 2021/22.

PJM's Planning Committee endorsed the use of a 13-year load model with data from 2002-2014 for the 2020 reserve requirement study.

PJM stakeholders endorsed “quick-fix” manual revisions to expand the use of synchrophasors and make them a requirement for certain projects under the RTEP.

PJM is dusting off a never-used mechanism that would allow states to pay for transmission needed to achieve public policy goals.

PJM’s Planning Committee postponed a vote on “quick-fix” manual revisions to expand the use of PMUs and require them for certain projects under the RTEP.

PJM weekday load peaks have come in 10.4% less than than projected before the coronavirus pandemic, the Planning Committee learned.

PJM incumbent TOs won a victory as the Planning Committee endorsed a new regional targeted market efficiency project process that would be excluded from competition.

PJM's Planning Committee ok'd an initiative to create rules for “if and how” energy storage could be part of the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.