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.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Thursday gave final approval to one of several reliability standards and opened for comment two others.

PJM offshore wind took one step forward and one step back as BOEM announced the auction of 112,800 acres off Virginia while the NJ BPU rejected Fishermen's Energy.

FERC's ancillary services rule should help renewable generators with service balancing and enable electric storage providers to be more competitive in PJM.