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.

American Electric Power’s portion of Duff-Rockport-Coleman project has been placed on hold and will not be modeled in the 2018 RTEP, PJM told the TEAC.

American Municipal Power contended that PJM’s limited review of transmission owner projects is not rigorous enough to ensure the RTO is avoiding unnecessary costs.

PJM is experiencing an “unprecedented” switch from coal- to gas-fired generation while also managing the replacement of aging transmission infrastructure.