Transmission owners found themselves on the defensive throughout FERC's technical conference on transmission planning and cost management.

PJM and its Monitor sparred at two different committee meetings as they tried to win stakeholder support for their proposals on black start resources.

Capping four years of discussions and analysis, PJM held a first read of competing fuel assurance rule changes for black start resources from PJM and the IMM.

Consumer advocates, industrial consumers and municipals asked FERC to force PJM to require incumbent TOs to sign agreements on immediate-need projects.

Industrial energy users and other ratepayers are balking at FERC’s proposal to abandon Order 1000’s competition measures.