A proposal by the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States that the RTO fund the group’s $450,000 budget through an assessment on electric customers won support from state regulators and other load interests but drew sharp opposition from suppliers.

Consumer advocates told PJM that Capacity Performance could saddle ratepayers with excessive costs because of its treatment of renewable energy.

Consumer advocates asked the PJM Board of Managers to assess the impact of recent capacity market changes before making any new ones and criticized what they called the RTO’s new “inflexibility.”