The PJM Planning Committee rejected a proposal to bring end-of-life supplemental projects under the purview of the RTO’s regional planning process.

PJM is reformatting and drafting clarifications to Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process that may impact the RTO’s planning modeling.

PJM’s transmission owners have floated a proposal that would comply with FERC’s show cause order on their planning processes.

AMP and ODEC developed a proposal to give PJM stakeholders “meaningful input” in planning of transmission projects for end-of-life facilities.

PJM staff abruptly ended a meeting of the Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force, saying the group was suspended until FERC action.

PJM remains disinclined to create procedures to analyze any other cost containment guarantees beyond construction cost caps.

PJM told members of the Transmission Replacement Process Senior Task Force they must agree on a common definition of end-of-life facilities.

Discussion at PJM’s Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force has not advanced much since July, but the rhetoric has softened.

The PJM Planning Committee and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee (TEAC) considered the loss of the Quad Cities nuclear plant and discussed Order 1000 rules, $1.1 billion in end-of-life projects for PSE&G and the third RTEP window of the year.