PJM and its Transmission Owners won federal regulators’ conditional approval for their plan to integrate multi-driver projects into the RTEP.

PJM and its Transmission Owners filed a response to address what FERC deemed deficiencies in their plan to integrate multi-driver projects into the RTEP.

PJM’s most recent competitive window for transmission projects attracted 63 proposals from 12 entities, the majority of them transmission owner upgrades.

PJM is reducing its load forecast for 2018 by 2.6%, due in part to a temporary change in modeling that aims to address over-forecasting in recent years.

A round-up of news from the PJM Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on Sept. 2, 2014.

PJM said the Dooms-Lexington 500-kV line in Virginia will begin an extended outage next month and through winter for a rebuild of the 40-mile span.

PJM received 106 proposals to fix about 50 reliability problems in the first Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Order 1000 window for 2014.

PJM planners today recommended PSE&G be awarded the contract to fix the Artificial Island stability problem with a new 500kV line at a cost of about $300 million.

The first project window for the 2019 PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) will open in about a month.

As expected, PJM transmission planners said last week they will recommend the PJM Board of Managers approve FirstEnergy’s proposed $8 million congestion-relief upgrade in the MetEd zone.