PJM is reformatting and drafting clarifications to Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process that may impact the RTO’s planning modeling.

FERC ok'd cost allocations for 60 transmission projects added to PJM’s RTEP, including high-voltage projects allocated entirely to a Dominion Energy zone.

The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s annual reserve requirement study and recommendations for a 15.7% IRM for next year’s Base Residual Auction.

PJM and FERC must reconsider how they allocate the costs of high-voltage transmission projects developed to satisfy individual utilities’ planning criteria.

The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s recommended load model for the 2018 reserve requirement study, which uses data from 2003 through 2012.

It remains unclear whether PJM will have new rules in place for evaluating and selecting market efficiency projects by the start of the next RTEP window.

PJM staff abruptly ended a meeting of the Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force, saying the group was suspended until FERC action.

FERC approved part of PJM’s cost responsibility assignments for its updated RTEP, but rejected cost allocations for four cross-border projects.

FERC denied a complaint from the New Jersey BPU to reallocate the Bergen-Linden Corridor project’s costs, leaving PSEG to pay for most of it.

FERC has approved a settlement between PJM, Exelon and the Illinois Commerce Commission over abandonment costs for the canceled MAPP transmission project.