PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring said that the RTO must include strong market-power protections in rules allowing generators to change their offers hourly.

A proposal by the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States that the RTO fund the group’s $450,000 budget through an assessment on electric customers won support from state regulators and other load interests but drew sharp opposition from suppliers.

Some coal-fired power plants at risk of retirement under the EPA’s carbon emission rule could survive thanks to renewable energy, according to a PJM study.

State-by-state compliance with the EPA's proposed carbon emission rule would be almost 30% more expensive than a regional approach, according to preliminary results of PJM analyses.

Less than 3% of generation capacity constructed in 2013 was developed solely for sale into organized electricity markets, according to a study by APPA.

A round-up of news from the PJM Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on Oct. 9, 2014.

EPA regulations, cybersecurity, FERC enforcement and utility rate design dominated the discussions as more than 1,000 state regulators and industry officials gathered at the NARUC annual meeting in Orlando last week.

The capacity market and the role of demand response dominated the discussion as more than 170 state regulators, PJM staff and stakeholders gathered here for the OPSI annual meeting last week.

State regulators and the PJM Board of Managers publicly buried the hatchet over the RTO's contract with Monitoring Analytics. But some tensions remain.

PJM announced that the Board of Managers approved a new contract with Monitoring Analytics, PJM’s independent market monitor. The contract runs through 2019.