PJM will hold its spring restoration drill May 15-16, staff told attendees at last week’s Operating Committee meeting.

FERC approved several NERC reliability standards and proposed a rulemaking regarding emergency procedures.

The CAISO board approved usage of generator contingency modeling and RAS in the day-ahead and real-time markets.

The EIM Governing Body approved a CAISO proposal allowing market participants to take part in a program that models generator outages.

FERC approved a final rule on recovering from balancing contingency events and proposed another to ensure that remedial action schemes do not compromise reliability.