PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

PJM’s initiative to internalize all generator payments moved forward at the MRC when stakeholders endorsed the RTO’s proposal to examine price formation.

PJM postponed a planned vote at last week's Planning Committee on its proposal to adjust the analysis process for market efficiency transmission projects.

FERC approved NYISO Tariff revisions ordering downstate residents to pay 90% of the cost of AC transmission projects stemming from public policy needs.

Only a few PJM stakeholders attended the special Planning Commission session on cost-containment provisions in bids on transmission projects.

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said "I did not sign up for blowing up the markets" to applause at the 2017 OPSI Annual Meeting.

PJM stakeholders debated how cost caps in competitive transmission bids should be weighed when they're considered for selection.

PJM has begun discussing the role and significance of cost-containment assurances in bids for transmission projects under FERC’s Order 1000.

Panelists at MACRUC discussed the balance between upgrading an aging transmission grid and limiting the costs of those upgrades.

At the PJM Annual Meeting, consumer advocates and environmental groups urged the RTO's Board of Managers to do more to engage end-use customers.