The winter’s high prices for gas and power have busted budgets and left state regulators and consumer advocates scrambling for answers. FERC says it has seen no evidence of market manipulation.

PJM is considering boosting its capacity payments to nuclear plants and others with firm winter fuel supplies, the RTO told a FERC technical conference Tuesday.

State regulators and the PJM Board of Managers publicly buried the hatchet over the RTO's contract with Monitoring Analytics. But some tensions remain.