PJM staff unveiled to the Planning Committee a proposed new fee structure for a more involved cost-containment process.

Electric distributors want PJM transmission owners to reveal more about how they decide when it’s time to replace infrastructure at “the end of its life.”

Tension among PJM sectors boiled over after members once again deferred a vote on proposed manual revisions regarding supplemental transmission projects.

PJM’s Merchant Transmission and Offshore Wind Task Force will soon bring potential rule changes for offshore wind development to the Planning Committee.

PJM Planning Committee Chairman Ken Seiler said the new executive director of systems operations, Dave Souder, will replace him as committee chair in July.

PJM’s Market Efficiency Process Enhancement Task Force will tackle concerns raised by the monitor over its benefit-cost analyses for transmission projects.

Most of PJM’s recent market rule changes went too quickly for advocate groups, though their desire for deceleration stops at financial transmission rights.

PJM will assemble a task force dedicated to studying the impacts of carbon pricing throughout the RTO’s footprint under a problem statement and issue charge approved by the MRC.

PJM’s Planning Committee endorsed capacity generation rule changes for Manual 21, save the controversial effective load-carrying capability calculations.

PJM scheduled two meetings in the coming weeks to discuss rules for removing projects from the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.