The PJM Members Committee overwhelmingly voted to appoint Robert Ethier and Le Xie to fill two vacant positions on the RTO’s Board of Managers.

Addressing a technical conference on the state of PJM, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said PJM must undertake immediate governance changes, with granting states a greater voice in decision-making atop the list.

The governors of Pennsylvania and Virginia have requested that PJM consider former FERC Commissioners Mark Christie and Allison Clements to fill two vacant seats on the RTO’s Board of Managers.

The PJM Board of Managers initiated a Critical Issue Fast Path process aimed at maintaining resource adequacy in the face of rising data center load growth, asking stakeholders to draft proposals to serve 32 GW of load growth expected by 2030.

PJM's Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed by acclamation an issue charge by Constellation Energy focused on how storage as a transmission asset could be implemented in the RTO.

PJM member states are seeking the ability to nominate two candidates to the RTO’s board as they grow increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the affordability and reliability of the grid.

The PJM Board of Managers is pursuing an approach that would spread the cost of continuing to operate Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station to all PJM consumers.

Looking ahead to the possibility of future emergency orders from the DOE, stakeholders endorsed a PJM issue charge to establish a more permanent set of rules for how to allocate the cost of keeping generation online beyond its desired deactivation date when ordered by the federal government.

Committee business included a quick-fix package to expand the definition of dual-fuel generation in the Reliability Assurance Agreement to include generation capable of running on a backup fuel type with off-site storage and dedicated delivery.