The Northeast Power Coordinating Council is projecting a summer peak demand of 103,548 MW in the week of July 28, 2019 a 0.6% reduction from last year.

The Northeast Power Coordinating Council is projecting a summer peak demand of 103,548 MW in the week of July 28, a 0.6% reduction from last year.

New England utilities updated the ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee on their plans to repair and upgrade their transmission facilities.

Some of the changes PJM is considering in the wake of September's unexpected heat wave include: more conservative reserve calculations, quicker and more granular demand response deployments and optimizing trades with neighboring regions.

PJM cut loads in IN, MI, OH and PA Tuesday as a 90-degree heat wave pushed loads to the highest ever for September, stressing the grid at a time when much generation and transmission was offline.