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.

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

Stakeholders will attempt to develop more accurate measurement and verification of residential DR under a problem statement approved by the MIC.

A look at how MISO and the Northeast RTOs are planning to cope with winter 2014-15.

PJM wasn’t the only place the winter 2013-14 made its mark in the record books. MISO, the Southwest Power Pool and NYISO all hit all-time winter peaks during January’s polar vortex, while ISO New England came up just short.

In its State of the Market report for 2013, the Market Monitor listed several high-priority tasks for the coming year.

The PJM 2013 State of the Market was, to quote that noted economist Yogi Berra, mostly “déjà vu all over again.”

PJM’s plan to implement new demand response rules in time for the May capacity auction are in doubt following a FERC order requiring the RTO to provide more information to support its proposal.

PJM members voted to begin work on rule changes to allow residential customers to participate in the synchronized reserve market through demand response.

PJM said it will change Manual 11’s rules regarding compensation for demand response despite a lack of stakeholder support.