PJM should be able to absorb the more than 7,000 MW of capacity imports that cleared in May’s auction for 2016-17, officials said.

A 2010 white paper by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) identified 10 applications for energy storage across the entire electricity supply chain.

Some of the changes PJM is considering in the wake of September's unexpected heat wave include: more conservative reserve calculations, quicker and more granular demand response deployments and optimizing trades with neighboring regions.

Advanced energy storage is ready to move beyond pilot projects and into day-to-day operations. But it will take rule changes and cost reductions for the technologies to reach their potential.

The PJM MIC was provided details on the removal of three special protection schemes (SPS) from the PPL and Dominion zones. See the article for details.

PJM will seek to set a limit on capacity imports before next year's Base Reliability Auction under a problem statement approved by the Planning Committee.

A Toronto entrepreneur announced plans to build a 1,000 MW merchant transmission line to deliver power from Ontario to PJM.

The Operating Committee and Market Implementation Committee endorsed manual changes to Manuals 12 and 27. See article for details.

The PJM Operating Committee Tuesday postponed a vote on proposals to increase penalties for under-performing synchronized reserve providers.

The MIC gave preliminary approval to a new coordinated transaction scheduling (cts) product intended to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO.