Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from Congress, the US Dept. of Energy, the EPA, FERC, NEI, and other national news.

The PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees approved the following measures with little discussion at their October 24th meeting.

The PJM MRC endorsed the following manual changes at their October 2013 meeting.

PJM’s capacity import limit seems to be changing almost daily, based on reports provided to stakeholders.

PJM Transmission owners said they will address transparency concerns over their load calculations, but insisted the issue be resolved by their committee rather than in the MRC.

RTO Insider's monthly preview of the items on the PJM MC and MRC agendas along with a description/explanation and links to our previous coverage.

FERC last week approved a new reliability standard that will allow PJM and other transmission planners to plan for “non-consequential” load loss following a single contingency.

Generation owners that do not qualify for a connection to the PJMNet private communication network would be able to purchase as many as five under a proposal approved by the Operating Committee.

The Operating Committee last week endorsed changes to Manuals 3, 10 and 14D.  Manual 3: Transmission Operations – Adds language regarding approval of emerg...

The Planning Committee last week endorsed changes to Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process to improve the procedure for analyzing and addressi...