Natural gas demand and production both set records in 2014, while gas trading declined for the fourth straight year, FERC reported last week.

Stakeholders representing load may oppose efforts to change PJM’s $1,000 per MWh offer cap, despite a frigid winter in which high gas prices forced the RTO to obtain temporary waivers from the limit.

Storms provided challenges, but a bounty of cheap natural gas brought consumers lower prices, PJM officials said at the Annual Meeting Year in Review.

By Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM Insider Two unplanned generator outages and high natural gas demand resulted in unusually high Balancing Operating Reserve (BOR) pay...