Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending. Lines on shore also will have to be upgraded or built.
It isn’t only PJM’s Atlantic states that see promise in offshore wind. The Great Lakes also offer strong winds, along with their own unique challenges — winter ice, opposition from tourist towns, and in Pennsylvania, development restrictions put into law by casino opponents.
PJM Insider's Issue Brief reviews offshore wind efforts in total and by state; suggesting that offshore wind’s environmental and economic development potential requires changes in federal policy and billions more than PJM's states have committed to date.
FERC signaled today that it will increase its scrutiny of the PJM-MISO Joint Common Market process amid complaints that PJM is improperly limiting MISO generation in its capacity market.
The PJM MIC will consider modifying the algorithm used for publishing supply curves resulting from the annual capacity market auction.
PJM Threatens to Sue PJM Insider for Trademark Infringement.
PJM PC Heard Proposals to eliminate the impact of curtailments on wind generators’ capacity calculations; creating losers and winners.
PJM's 2013 Market Efficiency Study revealed that an increase in the dispatch of gas-fired units in east PJM reduced west to east congestion in PJM.
Could a Regional Pipeline Organization (RPO) improve electric-gas coordination for PJM and the whole electric industry in the Mid-Atlantic states?
PJM “will err on the side of caution” in disclosing details from transmission developers’ project proposals when implementing their first proposal window.






