A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committees on March 31, 2015.

This week's state briefs include news on Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota and Texas.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee tabled voting until next month on a proposal to tighten rules on lost opportunity costs for combustion turbines.

Opponents of the Constitution Pipeline made good on a promise Friday to go to court to force a rehearing of FERC’s approval of the project.

Multiple stakeholders have requested rehearing of FERC's order that MISO could no longer allocate broadly the SSR costs of keeping Presque Isle open.

PJM members were asked last week to consider allowing generators to revise their offers hourly in the energy market to reflect changes in gas prices.

This week's company briefs include AEP, Xcel, Dominion, Direct Energy, PECO, Exelon, NRG and General Electric.

FERC last week approved a MISO proposal to exempt some owners of retiring coal plants from capacity deficiency penalties.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the NRC, Harry Reid, Mark Warner, the Department of Energy and the BOEM.

A labor council representing New York utility workers is worried that the state’s path-breaking initiatives in the smart grid, distributed energy resources and energy storage are taking attention away from overdue needs for transmission upgrades in the state.