The Operating Committee and Market Implementation Committee endorsed manual changes to Manuals 12 and 27. See article for details.

PJM plans $30 million in capital budget spending next year, a $2 million reduction from 2013, under a preliminary budget that will be presented to the Board of Managers for approval.

Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: Exelon - including BGE and ComEd, Dominion, and PPL.

PJM members approved streamlining the demand response registration process.

The Consumer Advocates of the PJM States (CAPS) has named longtime Pennsylvania government official Dan Griffiths as its first director.

The PJM Operating Committee Tuesday postponed a vote on proposals to increase penalties for under-performing synchronized reserve providers.

The MIC gave preliminary approval to a new coordinated transaction scheduling (cts) product intended to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO.

PJM has added more granularity for the Mid-Atlantic area in its load forecasting file. See story for details.

The Operating Committee last week endorsed revised charters for the System Information subcommittee.

PJM cut loads in IN, MI, OH and PA Tuesday as a 90-degree heat wave pushed loads to the highest ever for September, stressing the grid at a time when much generation and transmission was offline.