PJM is considering five capacity import zones with a combined limit (e.g. import cap) of 8,400 to 11,000 MW, officials told the Planning Committee Friday.

RTO Insider's monthly preview of the items on the PJM MC and MRC agendas along with a description/explanation and links to our previous coverage.

FERC's technical conference on capacity markets elicited sharply differing views on a variety of design concepts and technical issues.

Six years after RPM’s inception,FERC convened a technical conference last week to ask the question: How’s the capacity market working for you?

The following issues were approved by the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday with little discussion. Each item is listed by agenda numbe...

RTO Insider's monthly preview of the items on the PJM MC and MRC agendas along with a description/explanation and links to our previous coverage.

Some of the changes PJM is considering in the wake of September's unexpected heat wave include: more conservative reserve calculations, quicker and more granular demand response deployments and optimizing trades with neighboring regions.

The MIC gave preliminary approval to a new coordinated transaction scheduling (cts) product intended to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO.

The following issues generated little or no discussion among members at the MRC on 8/29/13. The issues will be brought to a vote at the next MRC, 9/26/13.

PJM may seek to lower the price cap on emergency demand response as a result of their review of the July 14-19 heat wave.