The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed an RTO proposal to establish penalties for load management and price-responsive demand resources that underperform during pre-emergency deployments.

PJM has updated its thinking on the design of its reliability backstop procurement to meet rising data center load, gravitating toward a model in which the RTO would determine the amount of capacity to be purchased and act as the administrator and counterparty to the resulting agreements.

The challenges of meeting accelerating load growth dominated discussions at EMPOWER 26, Yes Energy’s annual summit.

Former FERC Chair and Voltus executive Jon Wellinghoff discussed his career and its focus on consumers. He is a headlining speaker at the EMPOWER 2026 Conference in Boulder.

PJM, Voltus and the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor presented proposals to establish penalties for demand response and price-responsive demand resources that fail to perform during a pre-emergency load management event.

Voltus and Mission:data continued to make their case that data access is preventing PJM from tapping into residential demand response, which is just a fraction of the market now.

PJM told FERC that a complaint seeking to use statistics to estimate customers’ demand response when accessing meter data is not practical.

Curtailment service providers Voltus and Mission:data have filed a complaint with FERC seeking changes to PJM's data requirements for demand response.

Voltus filed a complaint with FERC against MISO, alleging the RTO’s “11th-hour” changes in testing and contract proof requirements ahead of the spring capacity auctions will harm demand response resources and affect rates.