News briefs from around the states within the PJM footprint. States covered this week include Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Last week FERC accepted PJM’s revised plan for frequency compensation, and rejecting a rehearing request from PSEG Companies.

FERC rejected PSEG’s challenge to PJM’s transmission modeling, saying the company had failed to prove that PJM’s method was “black box decision-making.”

PJM transmission planners identified more than $800 million in reliability upgrades for inclusion in the PJM RTEP for 2013. Costs may exceed $1 billion.

The diversity of solutions and costs proposed for Artificial Island validates FERC’s view that competition reduces costs and increases innovation.

Two-thirds of PJM’s transmission owners have failed to file FERC-approved tariffs disclosing the methodology they use to calculate customer rates ...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. With its market-leading status in demand response, blue chip clients and international expansion plans, EnerNOC Inc. may be a good long-...

Two utilities signaled their intent to oppose a “multi-driver” approach for incorporating public policy goals in PJM’s transmission planning process.

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