Coal boosters who hope carbon capture technology will ensure the fuel’s future will find little support in a report for planners in the Eastern Interconnection.

State briefs from around PJM's footprint. Included this week are Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Panda Power Funds, a Texas-based private equity fund, last week announced two big investments in PJM, proposing a plant in MD and purchasing rights to a planned generator in PA.

Ike Leggett, chief executive of Montgomery County, MD, said last week the county will appeal the MD PSC’s decision allowing a Pepco rate hike, calling it "premature."

Gov. Martin O’Malley last week called on Maryland to get one-quarter of its electricity from renewable sources by 2022, a 25% boost in the current Maryland RPS.

The MD PSC approved only some of PEPCO's rate increase; $28 million in distribution rates and a $24 million surcharge to accelerate the hardening of feeder lines.

Exelon Corp. was tops in lobbying spending with more than $400,000 in Maryland between November 2012 and April 2013, making it the top spender in the state.

Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending. Lines on shore also will have to be upgraded or built.

Delmarva Power & Light Co. filed rate hike requests totaling almost $65 million in Delaware and Maryland, saying its revenues have not kept pace with gro...