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December 6, 2025

Capacity Performance (CP)

PJM Transition Auction Capacity not Included in Incremental Auction
PJM said none of the 10,017 MW of additional capacity committed in the 2017/18 transition auction will be calculated in this week’s incremental auction for the delivery year.
Capacity Market ‘Holy Wars’ Revisited at EUCI Conference
RTO officials and market players new performance incentives and the pros and cons of energy-only scarcity pricing at EUCI’s Capacity Market conference.
PJM Transition Auction Means Reprieve for Exelon Nukes
Capacity Performance resources cleared at $151.50/MW-day in the transition auction for the 2017/18 delivery year, PJM said Wednesday.
Timing of PJM Auction Announcement Sparks Real-Time Debate
PJM's 2016/17 transition auction results were released shortly after the stock market closed at 4 p.m. Monday — coincidentally during an EUCI conference in Cambridge, Mass., that attracted PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring, PJM Chief Economist Paul Sotkiewicz and Jim Wilson, a consultant to consumer advocates in PJM.
PJM 2016/17 Transition Auction Clears at $134/MW-day
Capacity Performance resources cleared at $134/MW-day in the transition auction for the 2016/17 delivery year, PJM announced Monday.
FERC Sides with PJM on Capacity Performance Transition Auctions
FERC rejected complaints from NextEra Energy and Direct Energy seeking to change the way PJM conducts its incremental capacity auctions to transition to its new Capacity Performance product.
What’s Next for Exelon’s Nukes, AEP Merchant Fleet?

PJM generators — such as Exelon, Dynegy, NRG and PSEG — will earn $10.9 billion from this year’s capacity auction in the first test of the RTO’s new Capacity Performance requirements.

UPDATE: PJM Capacity Prices Up 37% to $165/MW-day
PJM's first capacity auction under its new no-excuses policy saw prices rise 37% to $164.77/MW-day in most of the RTO.
PJM Opens Capacity Auction Under New Rules
PJM's Base Residual Auction for 2018/19 will be the first under the new Capacity Performance rules approved by FERC in June.
PJM, Pipelines Pledge Increased Cooperation to Boost Reliability
PJM and nine interstate pipelines have signed an information-sharing agreement to improve the reliability and flexibility of natural gas supplies for the RTO’s generators.

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