Stakeholders endorsed manual changes to implement dispatch rules for demand response and lessons learned from the extreme weather of the last year.

PJM Stakeholders are still considering revisions to black start compensation following the rejection of two proposals in March, but zones currently identified as deficient won’t be in jeopardy when generation retirements rise in spring 2015.

PJM is planning a system-wide drill Sept. 23 to simulate simultaneous physical attacks on critical substations, cyber attacks and loss of SCADA.

Calpine announced SPS to accommodate Susquehanna-Roseland construction while PPL posted new line designations.

Nearing the end of one of the harshest winters in its history, PJM is considering requiring winter testing of generators.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: PJM, PPL, and a new demand response trade group - the Advanced Energy Management Alliance.

PJM is consolidating its rules for establishing dynamic transfers, which allow resources in one balancing authority to be operated as if they were in another BA region.

The Planning and Operating committees endorsed changes to the following PJM Manuals: 7, 14A ,21 and 40.

PJM provided members a glimpse last week of the new visualization tools that will soon be available to transmission operators as a result of the deployment of synchrophasors.

PJM plans to survey generation owners to determine what can be done to increase resource flexibility.