A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM MRC & MC meetings on Thursday, August 1st, 2013. Reason & impact are included.

FERC moved to improve gas-electric communication by giving gas pipeline operators explicit permission to exchange non-public operational data with PJM.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) endorsed revised business practices and communication standards to comply with commission Orders 890 and 676

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Thursday gave final approval to one of several reliability standards and opened for comment two others.

Last week FERC accepted PJM’s revised plan for frequency compensation, and rejecting a rehearing request from PSEG Companies.

PJM offshore wind took one step forward and one step back as BOEM announced the auction of 112,800 acres off Virginia while the NJ BPU rejected Fishermen's Energy.

FERC rejected PSEG’s challenge to PJM’s transmission modeling, saying the company had failed to prove that PJM’s method was “black box decision-making.”

FERC's ancillary services rule should help renewable generators with service balancing and enable electric storage providers to be more competitive in PJM.

Dominion and PPL will remove three Special Protection Schemes (SPS) while Dominion will add one, PJM told the Planning Committee last week.

PJM's Market Implementation Committee will consider proposals to allow network load customers more opportunities to switch from zonal to nodal pricing.