FERC accepted revisions to long-term PJM FTR auctions to correct current processes that might overstate available system capacity and harm ARR holders.

PJM ordered its second load shed event since implementing Capacity Performance in 2015 less than two months after ordering the first.

PJM ordered its first load-shed event since implementing Capacity Performance in 2015 after a transmission line in Indiana tripped offline.

Although FERC has required almost all new generating units to provide primary frequency response (PFR), PJM stakeholders are strongly opposing any move by the RTO to require existing units to follow suit.

FERC approved an uncontested settlement between SPP and several of its members to implement a formula rate template and protocols for a new member.

PJM and its transmission owners released a joint proposal to address FERC’s decision last month that the TOs are not in compliance with FERC Order 890.

State and consumer representatives asked for education sessions during the first meeting of PJM’s new Summer-Only Demand Response Senior Task Force.

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said "I did not sign up for blowing up the markets" to applause at the 2017 OPSI Annual Meeting.

The panels at the Organization of PJM States (OPSI) 2017 annual meeting discussed the effects of cheap natural gas on the markets and state politics.

Discussion at PJM’s Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force has not advanced much since July, but the rhetoric has softened.