FERC will hold a technical conference April 1 to discuss issues raised by this winter’s extreme cold, which exposed vulnerabilities in the grid’s increasing reliance on natural-gas fired generation.
An EPA official provided regulators with an update on pending GHG rules: CO2 emission limits on existing generating plants.
PJM wants to change the way virtual trades pay for uplift, replacing the current unpredictable charges with a flat per megawatt fee and assessing them for the first time on up-to congestion trades (UTCs).
High-cost gas-fired generators will be able to set PJM market clearing prices above $1,000/MWh for the remainder of the winter, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled.
Wednesday’s ice storm cut power to more than 1 million in the Philadelphia area, with Peco Energy recording a new winter outage record. RTO Insider Editor Rich Heidorn Jr. was there and brings you all the details.
Two new PJM substations, part of the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission project, are nearly complete.
News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: PJM, PPL, and a new demand response trade group - the Advanced Energy Management Alliance.
News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
PJM is consolidating its rules for establishing dynamic transfers, which allow resources in one balancing authority to be operated as if they were in another BA region.
Several PJM utilities released their fourth quarter earnings last week, but none made news like Exelon, which warned that it may shut down some of its nuclear generating stations if they can't compete against subsidized renewable generators and stubbornly low natural gas prices.
