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News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
After a record-breaking winter in which it narrowly avoided load shedding, PJM says it is confident it can keep air conditioners running this summer. But forward prices suggests costs may be higher than last year.
Dominion and PSE&G appear to have vaulted into contention in the Artificial Island contest following a design change by PJM planners.
PJM proposed changing the demand curve to be used in the 2015 Base Residual Auction, while recommending the RTO continue using a combustion turbine as the model for determining the Cost of New Entry (CONE).
FERC said it will grant a blanket waiver from OATT requirements for utilities whose only transmission assets are generator tie lines.
PJM’s Order 1000 transmission planning process may exclude consideration of non-incumbent proposals on projects subject to state rights of first refusal (ROFR), FERC ruled last week.
Consumer advocates asked the PJM Board of Managers to assess the impact of recent capacity market changes before making any new ones and criticized what they called the RTO’s new “inflexibility.”
Some generators may have taken advantage of January’s weather to boost their prices, the Market Monitor said in its quarterly State of the Market report Friday.
Exelon sold its 67% interest in Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Project, one of four run-of-the-river hydro facilities on the lower Susquehanna River, to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, L.P. for $613 million
