A proposal to allow intra-year switching to nodal pricing failed, falling just short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval.

Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: PPL, FirstEnergy and Pepco, as well as news from the Electric Power Research Institute.

Members agreed to consider new rules to allow batteries, flywheels and other advanced storage technologies to bid in the capacity market.

PJM should be able to absorb the more than 7,000 MW of capacity imports that cleared in May’s auction for 2016-17, officials said.

PJM's market monitor released data showing that up-to congestion (UTC) transactions are increasing shortfalls in Financial Transmission Rights (ftr) funding.

A 2010 white paper by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) identified 10 applications for energy storage across the entire electricity supply chain.

Now that the EPA has issued rules limiting carbon emissions from new coal generators, the industry says carbon capture is neither feasible nor economical - at least not yet.

RTO Insider's monthly preview of the items on the PJM MC and MRC agendas along with a description/explanation and links to our previous coverage.

Some of the changes PJM is considering in the wake of September's unexpected heat wave include: more conservative reserve calculations, quicker and more granular demand response deployments and optimizing trades with neighboring regions.

Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from ACEEE, Environment America, the Institute for Electric Efficiency, news on pending legislation and the EPA.