Unexpected imports from New York — not the mobilization of demand response — caused the heat wave price crash July 18 after spiking to $465/MWh amid the hottest day of the summer.

PJM took over management of the East Kentucky Power Cooperative on 6/1/13, adding almost 3,100 MW of generation and 2,800 miles of transmission to the RTO.

The Markets and Reliability Committee approved the creation of a task force to study potential reliability problems resulting from PJM’s increasing reliabili...