PJM’s proposed changes to the deployment of demand response could cost consumers billions, members said last week as the RTO and generators squared off against load-serving entities and industrial customers.

Emergency demand response produced 85% to 97% of promised reductions during the July heat wave.

The capacity market and the role of demand response dominated the discussion as more than 170 state regulators, PJM staff and stakeholders gathered here for the OPSI annual meeting last week.

FERC's technical conference on capacity markets elicited sharply differing views on a variety of design concepts and technical issues.

Six years after RPM’s inception,FERC convened a technical conference last week to ask the question: How’s the capacity market working for you?

The following issues were approved by the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday with little discussion. Each item is listed by agenda numbe...

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Some of the changes PJM is considering in the wake of September's unexpected heat wave include: more conservative reserve calculations, quicker and more granular demand response deployments and optimizing trades with neighboring regions.

PJM members approved streamlining the demand response registration process.

The following issues generated little or no discussion among members at the MRC on 8/29/13. The issues will be brought to a vote at the next MRC, 9/26/13.