Members agreed to consider new rules to allow batteries, flywheels and other advanced storage technologies to bid in the capacity market.

PJM should be able to absorb the more than 7,000 MW of capacity imports that cleared in May’s auction for 2016-17, officials said.

PJM’s recommended Installed Reserve Margin (IRM) will increase slightly because of the increasing alignment of the RTO’s peak demand with demand outside of the region.

PJM will seek to set a limit on capacity imports before next year's Base Reliability Auction under a problem statement approved by the Planning Committee.

PJM plans $30 million in capital budget spending next year, a $2 million reduction from 2013, under a preliminary budget that will be presented to the Board of Managers for approval.

RTO Insider: All generators would be required to verify their capacity under a problem statement approved by the PJM Planning Committee Thursday.

The PJM Planning Cmmtte approved two alternatives to protect wind generators from being assigned artificially depressed capacity values due to curtailments.

How much is too much? PJM officials are examining May’s base capacity auction to consider limiting capacity imports in order to ensure reliability.

Dominion and PPL will remove three Special Protection Schemes (SPS) while Dominion will add one, PJM told the Planning Committee last week.

The PJM Planning Cmte. voted to continue using a load model based on the period 1998-2006 in its calculation of Installed Reserve Margin (IRM) requirements.