State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Maryland and Delaware joined six other Eastern states in asking EPA to impose tighter controls on nine “upwind” PJM states they say are sending pollution over their borders.

The cost of complying with upcoming ghg rules will depend on the role of energy efficiency and the choice of “blended” or fuel-specific emission standards, speakers told a high-profile forum in Washington.

Members approved a proposal giving PJM more flexibility in the way it dispatches demand response, clearing the way for a FERC filing.

State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

PJM asked FERC to approve changes to the capacity auction - and the way that demand response clears within it - after those changes were rejected by stakeholders.

Advanced electric storage devices should be treated like limited demand response resources in the capacity market because of their short run times, PJM says.

Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from the Agriculture Department, the Obama Administration, and other national news.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: Algonquin, Dominion, Duke, and Dynegy.

PJM generators told FERC that it should go beyond PJM’s qualification rules for demand response providers — with some proposing that planned DR resources be banned from the capacity market.