A modified proposal to set earlier deadlines for power plants seeking exemptions from participation in PJM’s capacity market auctions won approval from the MRC and MC on 8/1/13.
VA regulators last week approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request to build a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired generator near Lawrenceville in Brunswick County.
The PJM MRC Committee Thursday abandoned a year-long effort to establish a long-term Capacity product.
PJM Members voted Thursday to approve a problem statement to consider modifying the design of the RPM to reduce speculation on the capacity auction.
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.
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.
