As temperatures soared into the 80s outside PJM offices last week, stakeholders began debating how to avoid a repeat of the gas dispatch operational problems from last winter.

PJM planners will recommend almost $150 million in transmission upgrades in New Jersey to address reliability problems anticipated from the retirement of the B.L. England coal-fired generator.

Transcripts filed in Duke Energy's "stranded gas" complaint offer a behind-the-scenes look at PJM operations under extreme stress.

PJM told FERC last week it should allow a Duke Energy peaking plant to recover $9.8 million it spent on expensive natural gas it was unable to burn in January.

A summary of the recommendations from PJM’s report on the operational challenges from the winter of 2014.

PJM issued a comprehensive report on its response to the historic power demand during winter’s deep freeze, adding nine proposed recommendations for action to five initiatives already underway.

Fuel procurement and environmental limitations are the top obstacles to increasing the flexibility of PJM’s generating fleet, according to the PJM generator survey results released last week.

A look at how MISO and the Northeast RTOs are planning to cope with winter 2014-15.

PJM wasn’t the only place the winter 2013-14 made its mark in the record books. MISO, the Southwest Power Pool and NYISO all hit all-time winter peaks during January’s polar vortex, while ISO New England came up just short.

PJM is considering boosting its capacity payments to nuclear plants and others with firm winter fuel supplies, the RTO told a FERC technical conference Tuesday.