PJM's Atlantic states are ideally located to pursue offshore wind, with shallow coasts similar to Europe, where utility-scale offshore wind is 10+ years old

The Interior Department Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees development of the nation’s wind energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending. Lines on shore also will have to be upgraded or built.

It isn’t only PJM’s Atlantic states that see promise in offshore wind. The Great Lakes also offer strong winds, along with their own unique challenges — winter ice, opposition from tourist towns, and in Pennsylvania, development restrictions put into law by casino opponents.

PJM Insider's Issue Brief reviews offshore wind efforts in total and by state; suggesting that offshore wind’s environmental and economic development potential requires changes in federal policy and billions more than PJM's states have committed to date.

FERC signaled today that it will increase its scrutiny of the PJM-MISO Joint Common Market process amid complaints that PJM is improperly limiting MISO generation in its capacity market.

PJM faces Market Implementation Committee Work Plan Problem Statement Resource Limits - facilitators needed for meetings on problem statements.

The PJM Operating Committee Tuesday approved changes to manuals 14 and 36. The changes go next to the Markets and Reliability Committee for final approval.

PJM’s summer 2013 emergency preparedness drill exposed several communications problems and the need for additional training, PJM’s Bill Powell told the Operating Committee Tuesday.

PJM will begin posting temporary transmission rating changes on the OASIS System Information page effective June 19.