Stakeholders plowed through several hours of material at a special PJM Planning Committee session on whether the RTO should include cost containment provisions in its analysis of competitive bids for new transmission.

PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

PJM staff highlighted procedural and process challenges of adding cost containment as a factor in transmission planning decisions.

American Electric Power’s portion of Duff-Rockport-Coleman project has been placed on hold and will not be modeled in the 2018 RTEP, PJM told the TEAC.

American Municipal Power contended that PJM’s limited review of transmission owner projects is not rigorous enough to ensure the RTO is avoiding unnecessary costs.

Stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting pushed PJM to expand its scope on several transmission-related issues.

PJM remains disinclined to create procedures to analyze any other cost containment guarantees beyond construction cost caps.

PJM postponed a planned vote at last week's Planning Committee on its proposal to adjust the analysis process for market efficiency transmission projects.

PJM presented the Planning Committee with issues it sees with its current process for evaluating market efficiency projects.

Stakeholders approved PJM’s 2017 installed reserve margin (IRM) calculations at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.