PJM staff unveiled to the Planning Committee a proposed new fee structure for a more involved cost-containment process.

PJM’s Merchant Transmission and Offshore Wind Task Force will soon bring potential rule changes for offshore wind development to the Planning Committee.

PJM Planning Committee Chairman Ken Seiler said the new executive director of systems operations, Dave Souder, will replace him as committee chair in July.

PJM’s Market Efficiency Process Enhancement Task Force will tackle concerns raised by the monitor over its benefit-cost analyses for transmission projects.

PJM wants stakeholder feedback about whether its Distributed Energy Resource Ride Through Task Force should pivot in a new direction.

PJM’s Planning Committee endorsed capacity generation rule changes for Manual 21, save the controversial effective load-carrying capability calculations.

AWEA said PJM’s proposal to change how wind and solar capacity values are calculated does not account for the technologies’ performance improvements over the last decade.

PJM scheduled two meetings in the coming weeks to discuss rules for removing projects from the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

PJM unanimously approved a problem statement to consider granting merchant transmission developers capacity interconnection rights for offshore wind.

PJM is considering changing interconnection rules to accommodate transmission serving offshore wind generation, RTO officials told the Planning Committee.