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

The Electric Power Research Institute will lead an educational session on smart inverters March 31 as the Planning Committee begins work on developing standards for the devices.

Preparing for a new scheduling product, the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee last week approved collateral rules for export transactions.

PJM Members last week approved revisions to the Operating Agreement to allow PJM to share non-public operational information with natural gas pipelines and local distribution companies.

FERC approved a new scheduling product to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO, clearing the way for its implementation later this year.

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

Wednesday’s ice storm cut power to more than 1 million in the Philadelphia area, with Peco Energy recording a new winter outage record. RTO Insider Editor Rich Heidorn Jr. was there and brings you all the details.

Two new PJM substations, part of the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission project, are nearly complete.

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.