PJM will increase performance penalties and incentives and seek ways to incorporate firm gas transportation in energy prices under an initiative announced last week to reduce generator outage rates during winter.

Businesses with up to 100 kW in annual peak demand will be exempt from the new 30-minute notice rule for DR providers.

A summary of the recommendations from PJM’s report on the operational challenges from the winter of 2014.

PJM issued a comprehensive report on its response to the historic power demand during winter’s deep freeze, adding nine proposed recommendations for action to five initiatives already underway.

A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees on April 24, 2014.

Stakeholders endorsed manual changes to implement dispatch rules for demand response and lessons learned from the extreme weather of the last year.

PJM Stakeholders endorsed rule changes to clarify that generation owners providing Tier 2 synchronized reserves will be measured in the aggregate when PJM evaluates their performance under a new penalty structure.

Fuel procurement and environmental limitations are the top obstacles to increasing the flexibility of PJM’s generating fleet, according to the PJM generator survey results released last week.

PJM said it will change Manual 11’s rules regarding compensation for demand response despite a lack of stakeholder support.

Preparing for a new scheduling product, the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee last week approved collateral rules for export transactions.