The Demand Response Subcommittee will seek ways to improve measurement and verification of emergency demand response under an issue charge approved last week by the Market Implementation Committee.

Businesses with up to 100 kW in annual peak demand will be exempt from the new 30-minute notice rule for DR providers.

Questions multiplied faster than answers last week following an appellate court ruling that threw out FERC's jurisdiction over demand response (DR) compensation.

PJM rule changes since last year’s auction resulted in reductions in cleared generation imports and demand response. The mix of DR that cleared also changed, with more annual resources and less summer-only.

Consumer advocates asked the PJM Board of Managers to assess the impact of recent capacity market changes before making any new ones and criticized what they called the RTO’s new “inflexibility.”

Acting on the eve of PJM’s base capacity auction, the FERC Friday approved most of PJM’s new dispatch rules for demand response but rejected a plan to curb speculation in the auction, saying it created undue barriers to entry.

Stakeholders approved two initiatives to improve demand response measurement and verification.

PJM yesterday opened the 2017/2018 Capacity Auction amid modest hopes among generators that the RTO’s rule changes will cause a rebound in prices.

Adopting the Market Monitor’s proposed changes to capacity market rules could almost triple auction revenues, the Monitor said last week.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: this week including Calpine Corp., Public Service Enterprise Group, Exelon Corp., Duke Energy Corp., PPL Corp. and Dominion Virginia Power.