Key challenges in the review are tightening supply and demand, the uncertain cost of new capacity and accounting for changes PJM has made to how it identifies reliability risks and determines the capacity value for different resource types.

PJM saw its highest peak loads in over a decade during a heat wave that stressed the Mid-Atlantic region from June 22 to 26.

Comments about FERC's technical conference argued for a variety of reforms to address resource adequacy.

PJM's Independent Market Monitor asked FERC to impose behavioral constraints on NRG Energy's proposed purchase of power plants and demand response from LS Power.

Anger over a recent dramatic rate hike and fears of energy shortfalls because of a predicted future rise in demand have prompted New Jersey to look anew at whether the state should consider pulling out of PJM.

Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.

PJM experienced a preliminary peak load over 160 GW during the recent heat wave, surpassing the RTO’s summer forecast of 154 GW and requiring the deployment of pre-emergency demand response.

The PJM Board of Managers is pursuing an approach that would spread the cost of continuing to operate Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station to all PJM consumers.

Looking ahead to the possibility of future emergency orders from the DOE, stakeholders endorsed a PJM issue charge to establish a more permanent set of rules for how to allocate the cost of keeping generation online beyond its desired deactivation date when ordered by the federal government.