Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel is recommending that regulators set tougher energy-efficiency targets for the state’s utilities.

Two of the finalists for the Artificial Island transmission fix have offered to cap their costs while a third has teamed up with Pepco.

News briefs on companies in the PJM Interconnection this week, including Duke Energy, Exelon, American Electric Power, Pepco and PPL.

A summary of the second-quarter 2014 earnings reports of major corporations doing business in PJM.

Exelon and Pepco told FERC last week that competitive and environmental concerns raised over their proposed merger are unfounded.

News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection, this week including Duke, Exelon, Pepco, NextEra and Energy Counsel LLP.

Businesses with up to 100 kW in annual peak demand will be exempt from the new 30-minute notice rule for DR providers.

The brutal winter weather boosted earnings for many PJM companies in the first quarter, even while some were absorbing huge costs from strategy shifts.

In Maryland and Washington D.C., it would be hard to find a company more hated by consumers than Pepco. Among PJM voting members, however, consumers have had few better advocates.