State briefs from around PJM's footprint. Included this week are Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

PJM may seek to lower the price cap on emergency demand response as a result of their review of the July 14-19 heat wave.

An overworked transformer and PJM operators’ efforts to limit prices were the focus last week as PJM continued to discuss the mid-July heat wave.

PJM wants to eliminate incentives for generators and demand response providers that fail to perform when called on for spinning (synchronized) reserve.

The diversity of solutions and costs proposed for Artificial Island validates FERC’s view that competition reduces costs and increases innovation.

Two-thirds of PJM’s transmission owners have failed to file FERC-approved tariffs disclosing the methodology they use to calculate customer rates ...

PJM took over management of the East Kentucky Power Cooperative on 6/1/13, adding almost 3,100 MW of generation and 2,800 miles of transmission to the RTO.