Below are the new market monitor recommendations included in the PJM Market Monitor’s State of the Market report for the first half of 2013.

PJM briefed members Wednesday on manual changes documenting two improved methods for CBL, a means for better verifying dr baseline processes.

PJM TOs flexed their muscles Wednesday, uniting to reject proposals to allow network load customers more frequent opportunities to switch to nodal pricing.

An overworked transformer and PJM operators’ efforts to limit prices were the focus last week as PJM continued to discuss the mid-July heat wave.

PJM Members Wednesday heard three proposals for streamlining the time consuming and error prone dr registration process.

Unexpected imports from New York — not the mobilization of demand response — caused the heat wave price crash July 18 after spiking to $465/MWh amid the hottest day of the summer.

The Markets and Reliability Committee approved changes to pjm manuals 1, 12, 19, and 20 on Thursday, August 1, 2013. For details, see our story.

A modified proposal to set earlier deadlines for power plants seeking exemptions from participation in PJM’s capacity market auctions won approval from the MRC and MC on 8/1/13.

The PJM MRC Committee Thursday abandoned a year-long effort to establish a long-term Capacity product.

PJM Members voted Thursday to approve a problem statement to consider modifying the design of the RPM to reduce speculation on the capacity auction.