News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: Constellation, American Electric Power, Somerset County Rural Electric Cooperative, Exelon, NRG Energy.

The PJM Planning Committee will hold an electric storage webinar, the planning committee's first educational session, from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 29.

Six years after RPM’s inception,FERC convened a technical conference last week to ask the question: How’s the capacity market working for you?

Members agreed to consider new rules to allow batteries, flywheels and other advanced storage technologies to bid in the capacity market.

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

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.

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.

State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: FirstEnergy, NRG, Duke Energy, and Pepco.

Dominion Virginia Power won the rights to develop 2,000 MW of offshore wind in federal waters. But due to high costs and state policies, the utility is making no promises.