Base Residual Auction (BRA)

PJM
PJM MRC/MC Preview: Jan. 22, 2026
A summary of the agenda items scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee meetings.
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PJM MIC Briefs: Jan. 7, 2026
The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed an issue charge to evaluate whether manual revisions are warranted, among other business conducted in the committee's most recent meeting.
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PJM Pushing Forward on Efforts to Meet Rising Data Center Load
PJM enters 2026 amid several efforts to ward off a reliability gap attributed to accelerating data center load, sluggish development of new capacity and resource deactivations.
Yes Energy
Can Restructured Markets Meet the Challenge of Data Center Demand Growth?
FERC and the organized power markets it oversees are facing huge challenges in trying to meet rising demand reliably and affordably.
PJM
PJM Capacity Auction Clears at Max Price, Falls Short of Reliability Requirement
PJM’s 2027/28 Base Residual Auction procured 134,479 MW in unforced capacity at the $333.44/MW-day maximum price, falling 6,623 MW short of the reliability requirement and setting a clearing price record.
Google
PJM Stakeholders to Vote on Large Load CIFP Proposals
PJM stakeholders are to vote on a record-breaking number of proposals on how the RTO should integrate large loads without impacting resource adequacy.
GridLab
GridLab: More Renewables Could Have Saved Billions in PJM Auction

If just 10% of the land-based renewables in PJM’s generator interconnection queue had been developed, the total cost of the RTO’s 2026/27 capacity auction would have been reduced by $3.5 billion, according to an analysis GridLab commissioned by Aurora Energy Research.

PJM
PJM Board of Managers Approves Quadrennial Review Proposal
The PJM Board of Managers has directed staff to proceed with a Quadrennial Review design that reworks the capacity auction price curve and sets the reference resource as a combustion turbine for all zones.
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OPSI Panels Discuss Data Center Load Growth

The challenges of meeting soaring forecasts of data center load growth dominated the Organization of PJM States Inc. (OPSI) Annual Meeting.

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PJM Drops Non-capacity Backed Load, Shifts Focus to Resource Queue, PRD
PJM has withdrawn its non-capacity backed load proposal, shifting the focus of its solution for rising large load additions to creating a parallel resource interconnection queue and reworking price-responsive demand.

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