PJM said last week it agrees with about one-quarter of the recommendations in the Independent Market Monitor’s 2013 State of the Market report.

PJM’s response to the Monitor’s annual review disagreed with about 40% of the recommendations. The RTO was noncommittal, or said it was unable to act, on about 35% of the more than 70 recommendations.

PJM agreed with about the same share of the IMM’s recommendations in its 2012 report but directly disagreed with about half of them.

The RTO’s 2012 response urged the Monitor to focus its findings on those with the biggest potential payback, noting that more than 90% of the suggestions pertained to subjects comprising less than 20% of total wholesale power market costs. The RTO said it was happy, however, that the Monitor had begun prioritizing the recommendations in the 2012 report.

In the 2013 report, the IMM prioritized only the new recommendations.

“Given the scope of issues to be considered in the stakeholder process, evaluation of priority and materiality of recommendations is an important consideration,” PJM said in its response. “PJM encourages the IMM to include consideration of priority and materiality in discussion and development of all recommendations along with associated detailed rationales for suggested changes to market rules.”