The Operating Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 13: Emergency Operations to add protocols for PJM and transmission owners to monitor and coordinate necessary actions when wildfires may disrupt infrastructure.

PJM heads into 2025 with several proposals before FERC seeking to rework its capacity market and generator interconnection queue, while stakeholders work on an expedited Quadrennial Review of the market and changes to resource accreditation.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro filed a complaint with FERC on behalf of the state asking the commission to revise how the maximum clearing price in PJM's capacity auction is determined.

PJM stakeholders have endorsed changes to accounting of demand response in load forecasts, among other actions.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission spent a full day looking at how growing demand from data centers is impacting the commonwealth's electric grid and rates.

FERC has ordered American Efficient to defend its energy efficiency programs in PJM and MISO or pay a $722 million penalty and return $253 million in profits to ratepayers.

Speakers at a PJM Public Interest and Environmental Organizations User Group meeting said the growth of local transmission projects is a major contributor to grid upgrades making up an increasing share of rates.

The PJM Planning Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 14H to clarify the changes developers can make to the site control requirements for their projects at different phases of the interconnection process.