Devin Leith-Yessian

The Operating Committee discussed PJM’s timeline for addressing technological and operational challenges the RTO plans to address over the next four years.

PJM proposes tightening "know your customer" rules, which require members to provide information to facilitate the due diligence PJM conducts on key decision-making leadership.

A spike in PJM capacity prices and generator deactivations could increase monthly costs in Maryland by as much as 24% for some.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee voted to eliminate energy efficiency from the capacity construct, adopting a proposal from the Independent Market Monitor.

The Reserve Certainty Senior Task Force is voting on a PJM proposal to add hourly differentiated notification times to the RTO’s day-ahead energy market.

The Independent Market Monitor has argued energy efficiency can’t participate as a capacity resource because the load reductions already are accounted for in PJM’s load forecast.

PJM presented the monthly operating metrics for August 2024, which it said saw strong performance through heat waves in the beginning of the month with a high overforecast on Aug. 31. | PJM

A PJM graphic compares the variable resource rate (VRR) curve for the 2026/27 capacity auction with the year prior. | PJM

The PJM PC voted to defer action on three proposals to rework the RTO’s process for transferring capacity interconnection rights.

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