PJM stakeholders narrowly approved an issue charge to examine the RTO’s operating reserve demand curve and transmission constraint penalty factors.

Members of PJM’s Public Interest and Environmental Organizations User Group (PIEOUG) last week unanimously endorsed a new charter for the stakeholder body, formalizing its structure and expanding its scope. The PIEOUG, which includes consumer advocates and representatives of public interest and environmental organizations, has been a longstanding group within the...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. CHICAGO — The PJM Annual Meeting marked the swan song for longtime consumer advocate Dan Griffiths, executive director of the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States. Griffiths | © RTO Insider PJM officials and stakeholders feted Griffiths on Monday at the annual meeting between the PJM...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Three public interest groups say they were shut out of last week’s FERC technical conference on tensions between state energy policies and wholesale markets (AD17-11) and called on the commission to improve the transparency of RTOs. In a letter to the commission, Public Citizen, the Public...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Nearly everyone who spoke at last week’s PJM Members Committee meeting agreed that stakeholder discussions are enhanced by the participation of the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States. But not everyone wants to pay to have them in the room. A proposal by...

By Suzanne Herel ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Consumer environmental advocates told the PJM Board of Managers last week that the Capacity Performance proposal could saddle ratepayers with excessive costs because of its treatment of renewable energy. They made their case during their annual meeting with the board last week, at...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Consumer advocates asked the PJM Board of Managers last week to assess the impact of recent capacity market changes before making any new ones and criticized what they called the RTO’s new “inflexibility.” Environmental groups, meanwhile, asked PJM to become “proactive” in addressing climate change and to...