News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection. This week featuring Duke Energy, AEP, Exelon and PPL.

The brutal winter weather boosted earnings for many PJM companies in the first quarter, even while some were absorbing huge costs from strategy shifts.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: This week we spotlight Duke Energy, Exelon, NRG Energy, Exelon, Exel Energy, FirstEnergy, ComEd, and AEP.

PJM and FERC were summoned to Capitol Hill last week to defend their actions to ensure reliability — FERC in response to sabotage concerns, PJM in the wake of an extraordinary winter that featured more near calamities than a James Bond movie.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: this week we focus on AEP, Dominion, Exelon, FirstEnergy, and NRG.

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.

News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: Dominion, Duke, Exelon, and AEP.

FERC clarified last week that its April 2013 order approving AEP’s Ohio restructuring plan does not preempt a court challenge by industrial customers.