The Planning Committee last week endorsed manual changes implementing PJM’s new capacity import limits.

As expected, PJM transmission planners said last week they will recommend the PJM Board of Managers approve FirstEnergy’s proposed $8 million congestion-relief upgrade in the MetEd zone.

Impatient over the pace of progress, FERC said it will monitor meetings focused on eliminating barriers to the coordination of energy across the PJM-MISO seam.

In its complaint against PJM and MISO, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) proposed six changes.

PJM will approve only one of 17 congestion relief proposals submitted in September, saying most failed to provide sufficient benefits or targeted problems that were already addressed.

Our summary of the issues scheduled for votes at the PJM MRC on 12/19/13. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage.

Retrofits and other planned outages will make it challenging to maintain reserve margins in 2014 and 2015 and PJM will likely need to reschedule some outage requests as a result.

PJM predicts summer peak loads will increase by about 1% annually over the next decade, with a 1.4% increase in 2014. But the 2014 load forecast reduces peak and energy forecasts from the 2013 report.

The cost of complying with upcoming ghg rules will depend on the role of energy efficiency and the choice of “blended” or fuel-specific emission standards, speakers told a high-profile forum in Washington.

The following PJM manual changes were endorsed by the Markets and Reliability Committee on Nov. 21.