After three years of serving as the first executive director of the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States (CAPS), Dan Griffiths plans to find his successor and retire by the end of the year.

PJM members approved a task force seasonal capacity charter to study how resources could be incorporated into Capacity Performance.

State consumer advocates (members of CAPS) pressed the PJM board to change Capacity Performance rules to allow more participation by seasonal resources.

FERC approved PJM’s creation of a funding mechanism to support CAPS through a charge to residential electric customers.

New York regulators OK'd a contract to keep the struggling R.E. Ginna nuclear power plant operating through March 2017.

The Members Committee overwhelmingly agreed last week to fund a $450,000 budget for the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States (CAPS), in part through an assessment on electric customers.

NSTAR Electric had challenged the sale of five power plants in the Boston area worth about 2,654 MW from various entities to Constellation for $1.1 billion.

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.

Exelon said first-quarter profit exceeded expectations, in part due to strong performances by PECO, Baltimore Gas and Electric and Constellation Energy.

FERC on Tuesday rejected the rate schedule proposed for the struggling Ginna nuclear power plant and ordered hearing and settlement proceedings.