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Two utilities signaled their intent to oppose a “multi-driver” approach for incorporating public policy goals in PJM’s transmission planning process.

NERC urged electric industry planners to begin incorporating the risk of natural gas supply interruptions in their reliability and resource assessments.

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The PJM Members Committee approved the following changes by acclimation at its annual meeting on May 16, 2013.

Public interest groups scolded PJM for excluding them from the MOPR stakeholder process and for setting its annual meeting at the Greenbrier. The public interest groups and state regulators also praised PJM for its handling of generation retirements and lobbied it to increase use of demand response and energy efficiency.

Storms provided challenges, but a bounty of cheap natural gas brought consumers lower prices, PJM officials said at the Annual Meeting Year in Review.

Natural gas’ growing role in electric generation was a recurrent theme at PJM’s annual meeting. Keynote speakers included Michael Levi and Steven Mueller.

FERC approved a revised transmission planning reliability standard (TPL-001-4) it had previously rejected as “vague and unenforceable.”

FERC Said that the electric transmission system needs more protections against geomagnetic disturbances like the 1989 solar storm that caused the collapse of the Hydro-Quebec grid.