PJM told members of the Transmission Replacement Process Senior Task Force they must agree on a common definition of end-of-life facilities.

FERC approved cost allocation responsibility assignments for 39 baseline upgrades recently added to the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

PJM’s announcement of plans to recommend more than $400 million in transmission upgrades sparked pushback from American Municipal Power.

The PJM Board of Managers authorized $1 billion in transmission project, including new construction, end-of-life replacements and upgrades.

Stakeholders approved PJM’s 2017 installed reserve margin (IRM) calculations at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

Discussion at PJM’s Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force has not advanced much since July, but the rhetoric has softened.

More than half of the $24.3 billion in transmission projects in PJM since 2012 were unneeded to comply with reliability requirements, according to AMP.

PJM has reduced its installed reserve margin, largely because of a drop in the equivalent forced outage rate.

PJM stakeholders debated how cost caps in competitive transmission bids should be weighed when they're considered for selection.

PJM staff have completed analysis of Reliability Pricing Model projects and are nearly finished examining interregional projects.