Consumer, small-business and environmental advocates pressed the PJM Board of Managers on the issue of transparency at their annual meeting.

“Resilience” was uttered so many times during the PJM annual meeting that speakers were joking about using the word before making their own comments.

The PJM Board elected former Intergen CEO Neil H. Smith to take the seat of the retiring Howard Schneider, while Ake Almgren was selected to succeed Schneider as chairman.

The first and only chairman of PJM’s Board of Managers retires Wednesday. It’s a day for which he has had years to prepare, and yet he admits he may never be fully ready to let go.

PJM won’t abandon the Artificial Island transmission project because of threats to close the two nuclear plants it’s intended to support, the RTO said.

The PJM Board announced that the Nominating Committee is recommending former InterGen CEO Neil Smith to replace retiring Chairman Howard Schneider.

The PJM Board of Managers directed staff to identify changes to improve reserve market pricing that can be implemented for next winter.

A Delaware demand-side group has asked the PJM Board of Managers to again suspend the Artificial Island transmission project.

PJM assured Pennsylvania legislators that the state has ample power generation for its needs and cautioned that fuel diversity will not ensure reliability.

PJM will ask FERC to choose between capacity market proposals by its staff and its Market Monitor (MOPR-Ex) to insulate its market from state subsidized generation.