PJM’s recommended Installed Reserve Margin (IRM) will increase slightly because of the increasing alignment of the RTO’s peak demand with demand outside of the region.

PJM will seek to set a limit on capacity imports before next year's Base Reliability Auction under a problem statement approved by the Planning Committee.

PJM plans $30 million in capital budget spending next year, a $2 million reduction from 2013, under a preliminary budget that will be presented to the Board of Managers for approval.

RTO Insider: All generators would be required to verify their capacity under a problem statement approved by the PJM Planning Committee Thursday.

The PJM Planning Cmmtte approved two alternatives to protect wind generators from being assigned artificially depressed capacity values due to curtailments.

How much is too much? PJM officials are examining May’s base capacity auction to consider limiting capacity imports in order to ensure reliability.

Dominion and PPL will remove three Special Protection Schemes (SPS) while Dominion will add one, PJM told the Planning Committee last week.

The PJM Planning Cmte. voted to continue using a load model based on the period 1998-2006 in its calculation of Installed Reserve Margin (IRM) requirements.

PJM expects to open a proposal window for market efficiency transmission projects later this year, PJM officials told members at last week's TEAC meeting.

The OC approved changes to PJM manuals 1 & 12; while the PC learned about proposed changes to Manual 21 & the MIC heard about changes to Manual 28.