Members narrowed the scope of a task force created to improve funding of FTR, agreeing to eliminate consideration of balancing congestion.

Our summary of issues discussed and voted on at the PJM MRC and MC on Thursday, 6/26/14 with no surprises or lengthy debate.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in PJM's footprint. This week, we highlight the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

PJM will attempt to win approval for limited changes to the compensation rules for black start units and a plan for selecting “backstop” resources for regions that fail to secure service through competitive solicitations.

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?