PJM weekday load peaks have come in 10.4% less than than projected before the coronavirus pandemic, the Planning Committee learned.

PJM incumbent TOs won a victory as the Planning Committee endorsed a new regional targeted market efficiency project process that would be excluded from competition.

Stakeholders urged the PJM board to ensure the “grid of the future” is planned regionally rather than controlled by individual transmission owners.

PJM told the Planning Committee it stands behind seeking approval of a regional market efficiency project process without developing cost allocation rules.

PJM is standing behind its original $7 million rebuild of the 115-kV Hunterstown-Lincoln line over a competing project from Ameren.

PJM plans to expand the use of synchrophasors and formalize their placements — currently voluntary — into the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

PJM told the Planning Committee it will share unredacted project proposals with the Monitor, despite confidentiality concerns raised by transmission owners.

PJM’s Planning Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 14F to remove the competitive exemption for Form 715 local planning criteria transmission projects.

PJM’s Planning Committee will consider whether the RTO must develop document language to deal with mitigation of existing and future infrastructure.

PJM wants to sunset the Distributed Energy Resources Ride Through Task Force after saying its work considering a default standard is done.