VA regulators last week approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request to build a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired generator near Lawrenceville in Brunswick County.

The PJM MRC Committee Thursday abandoned a year-long effort to establish a long-term Capacity product.

PJM Members voted Thursday to approve a problem statement to consider modifying the design of the RPM to reduce speculation on the capacity auction.

Gov. Martin O’Malley last week called on Maryland to get one-quarter of its electricity from renewable sources by 2022, a 25% boost in the current Maryland RPS.

The PJM Members Committee met on Thursday, August 1st and approved four issues by acclimation. See our story for details.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM MRC & MC meetings on Thursday, August 1st, 2013. Reason & impact are included.

Last week FERC accepted PJM’s revised plan for frequency compensation, and rejecting a rehearing request from PSEG Companies.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) endorsed revised business practices and communication standards to comply with commission Orders 890 and 676

FERC moved to improve gas-electric communication by giving gas pipeline operators explicit permission to exchange non-public operational data with PJM.

FERC rejected PSEG’s challenge to PJM’s transmission modeling, saying the company had failed to prove that PJM’s method was “black box decision-making.”