The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week approved a final rule extending reliability standards to generator tie-lines and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on standards regarding generator verification.
Advanced energy storage is ready to move beyond pilot projects and into day-to-day operations. But it will take rule changes and cost reductions for the technologies to reach their potential.
The nomination of Ron Binz to the FERC chairmanship was in jeopardy last week after coal-state lawmakers took him to task at his confirmation hearing.
Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: Duke, Exelon, FirstEnergy, and others.
State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
WASHINGTON – FERC today rejected settlements by FirstEnergy and Duke Energy affiliates over their moves to PJM, ruling that the companies unfairly imposed transition costs.
State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
The PJM Operating Committee Tuesday postponed a vote on proposals to increase penalties for under-performing synchronized reserve providers.
The MIC gave preliminary approval to a new coordinated transaction scheduling (cts) product intended to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO.
PJM has added more granularity for the Mid-Atlantic area in its load forecasting file. See story for details.
