ComEd is teaming with an engineering company to boost the reliability of Chicago’s electrical grid and protect it against terrorism by installing three miles of superconductor cable beneath the city’s Loop district.

PPL and Riverstone Holdings have offered to divest about 1,300 MW of generation from their 15,000-MW combined fleet to avoid market power concerns over their planned spinoff, Talen Energy.

News briefs on companies in the PJM Interconnection this week, including Duke, Exelon, NRG and Dominion.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection this week, including Dominion, Exelon, Public Service Electric & Gas and Southern.

News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection, this week including Duke, Exelon, Pepco, NextEra and Energy Counsel LLP.

Load representatives concerned by reports of generators’ bidding strategies in May’s PJM capacity auction reacted by threatening to block an initiative by Exelon Corp. to provide more informative supply curves.

Exelon made no secret last week that five of its nuclear units failed to clear the capacity auction. Other generators — representing almost two-thirds of the generation capacity that failed to clear — were less forthcoming.

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

PJM and several member companies weighed in with reactions to the EPA's proposed GHG rule and its carbon emission limits.