In its complaint against PJM and MISO, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) proposed six changes.

MISO began running the nation’s biggest RTO by geography with the integration last week of Entergy’s transmission system and those of six smaller transmission owners.

FirstEnergy's Don Miller, whose career wove in and out of PJM since the 1980s, is retiring.

Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from the Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court and the DC Circuit Court.

PJM’s assessment for the 2013-14 winter months identified no reliability issues.

Last month's GridEX II security drill was a valuable test of PJM’s emergency response procedures but lacked in realism, participants said.

The MD PSC worked with PJM to ensure new rules on demand response would not ruin the state’s “mass market” DR: EmPOWER Maryland, part of an initiative to reduce energy consumption by 15% below 2007 levels.

The Operating Committee last week endorsed changes to Manuals 3A and 13 while the Market Implementation Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 28.

PJM will approve only one of 17 congestion relief proposals submitted in September, saying most failed to provide sufficient benefits or targeted problems that were already addressed.

PJM will consider relaxing rules for up-to congestion transactions under a problem statement approved last week.