News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection, this week including PPL, Atlantic City Electric Co. and Hess Corp.

FERC approved NERC reliability rules on geomagnetic disturbances, personnel training and capacity modeling.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in PJM's footprint. This week, we highlight the Environmental Protection Agency, Congress, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

FERC rejected calls for a technical conference on its November order allowing the sharing of non-public operational information between interstate gas pipelines and electric transmission providers.

The California ISO’s expansion of its energy imbalance market to six other states have some asking the question: Is this the beginning of an RTO West?

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection, this week including Duke, Exelon, Pepco, NextEra and Energy Counsel LLP.

Power sellers in PJM will no longer have to submit market power screens under proposed changes to FERC's market-based rate (MBR) regulations.

Our summary of the issues scheduled for votes at the PJM MRC and MC on 06/26/14. 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.

FERC staff will hold workshops beginning this fall to consider rule changes regarding uplift, price caps and other issues affecting price formation in PJM and other RTOs.