January 26, 2025

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PJM Interconnection LLC is a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
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PJM in Discussions with Gov. Shapiro on Capacity Price Cap
PJM is in discussions with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to work toward a resolution on his complaint to FERC asking it to lower the price cap of the RTO’s capacity market.
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PJM Sets Record Winter Peak Load
PJM set a record winter peak load Jan. 22, surpassing its previous seasonal peak set in February 2015. PJM officials said actions the RTO and its members took ahead of the cold snap got the system through strained conditions.
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PJM MRC/MC Preview: Jan. 23, 2025
Among other actions, the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and the Members Committee will consider endorsing various manual revisions.
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Shapiro Warns of ‘Reevaluation’ of PJM if Capacity Prices not Addressed
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged PJM Chair Mark Takahashi to “intervene with” RTO leadership to revise the design of the capacity market before conducting the 2026/27 BRA to avoid an “unacceptable” increase in capacity market prices.
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Virginia Legislators Introduce Bills to Deal with Data Center Growth
Virginia legislators introduced a series of bills they hope to pass in a short session this year aimed at addressing demand growth from data centers through cost allocation of utility rates, increased transparency in planning and tying tax incentives to efficiency requirements.
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PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Jan. 7, 2025
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.
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PJM MIC Briefs: Jan. 8, 2025
PJM presented stakeholders with proposed manual revisions to implement a requirement that dual-fuel generators must offer schedules with both of their fuels into the energy market during the winter, as well as changes to the operational and seasonal testing for capacity resources.
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PJM Stakeholders Mixed on Uplift Proposal
PJM and its Monitor presented a joint proposal to rework the balancing operating reserve  credit structure to address a scenario they say results in generators receiving uplift payments despite not following dispatch orders.
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PJM OC Briefs: Jan. 9, 2025
The Operating Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 13: Emergency Operations to add protocols for PJM and transmission owners to monitor and coordinate necessary actions when wildfires may disrupt infrastructure.
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PJM Capacity Market in Flux Going into 2025
PJM heads into 2025 with several proposals before FERC seeking to rework its capacity market and generator interconnection queue, while stakeholders work on an expedited Quadrennial Review of the market and changes to resource accreditation.

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