FERC opened the door for PJM to resubmit a previously rejected proposal to shift its Regional Transmission Expansion Plan protocol from its operating agreement to its tariff, while dismissing a rehearing request for a connected proposal by the RTO’s transmission owners.

The Planning Committee endorsed by acclamation a PJM proposal to rework how it determines which jurisdiction a resource point of interconnection falls under.

FERC approved PJM’s proposed cost allocation for $6.7 billion in transmission upgrades included in the first window of the 2024 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

FERC Chair Mark Christie criticized PJM for continuing to consider proceeding with Transource Energy’s Independence Energy Connection transmission project years after Pennsylvania regulators denied it a certificate of public convenience and need.

A band of incumbent utilities has collected case studies that they say demonstrate the need to instate or maintain the right of first refusal for the good of grid expansion.

PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee heard a presentation about the preliminary 2029 congestion results in the 2024/25 Base Case.

PJM’s Andrew Gledhill presented a proposal to the Planning Committee to revise the installed reserve margin and forecast pool requirement for the third 2025/26 Incremental Auction.