After months of debate, PJM’s Manual 15 revisions on fuel-cost policies and hourly offers won the approval of the Market Implementation Committee.

PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring and others debated the role and value of the RTO's financial transmission rights market at OPSI's annual meeting last week.

After months of debate on proposed definitions for operating parameters, PJM and the Independent Market Monitor rankled some Market Implementation Committee members last week by introducing an unexpected, last-minute compromise package.

PJM will try again next month to gain stakeholder approval for codifying several generator operating parameters after a Market Implementation Committee discussion led to last-minute changes.

Panelists at the PJM Grid 20/20 summit discussed the challenges of conflicting state public policy, competing interests and the impact on the RTO's competitive markets.

Four Ph.Ds. joined in a tag-team debate on the virtues of scarcity pricing versus capacity markets in a panel discussion cum economics seminar at the Energy Bar Association’s Annual Meeting.

Joe Bowring and David Patton often disagree, but they are 100% in agreement on the need for independence in market monitoring.

Bowring’s allegations at a FERC technical conference in 2007 that PJM attempted to muzzle his internal market monitoring unit shook the RTO to its roots.

The independence concerns raised by former SPP market monitors resulted in part from FERC’s compromises in Order 719.

Mike Kormos, executive vice president and chief operations officer for PJM, is leaving the RTO on April 15 after 27 years.