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PJM Members Committee Votes to Endorse IRM/FPR Results for 2029/2030 Base Residual Auction
The August 19 vote passed, with End-Use Customers supporting it 64.3% and Electric Distributors 95.0%.
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PJM's flexible-resource redefinition heads to Members Committee Aug. 19
PJM proposes to narrow its Flexible Resource definition, which determines whether an inflexible resource can still draw Lost Opportunity Cost credit when PJM reduces or suspends it for reliability reasons; the item is dated for PJM's Members Committee on August 19.
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PJM Extends About 5,450 MW of Illinois Generation Past CEJA's 2030 Retirement Deadline
PJM conducted reliability determinations on Illinois generating units set to retire under the state's Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, then agreed with the owners — including Vistra, Constellation and NRG — to keep the plants in its markets at least until the end of the 2030/2031 Delivery Year.
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PJM's Manual 18 revision 63 returns to the MRC with an added conforming change
The periodic-review redline, first read by the Markets & Reliability Committee on July 28, now includes a new Load Management and PRD Non-PAI Event penalty conforming change; the redline is drafted to take effect September 1, 2026.
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PJM Proposes Definition of "Affiliated Fuel Supplier" for Manual 15
The change would memorialize an existing expectation for transparency, not alter the underlying Fuel Cost Policy review process.
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PJM's Manual 6 Revision 35 reaches MRC for first read
The annual periodic review carries a conforming interconnection-reform change and takes effect September 24, 2026.
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PJM, IMM pitch competing ORDC packages at MRC
PJM, the IMM and American Municipal Power each offered MRC a package of proposed changes, with PJM and the IMM proposing different shortage-pricing levels for reserves.
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PJM term sheet would eliminate Markets and Reliability Committee, extend Board terms to nine years
PJM plans to introduce the term sheet to stakeholders at its August 19 Members Committee meeting. ODEC has put forward a separate governance proposal of its own.
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PJM proposes cluster-based method to replace serial interim deliverability studies starting 2027/28
The Manual 14-H redline would prioritize projects already provisionally operational for deliverable-megawatt allocation, with PJM reverting to a single-cluster study if stakeholder support falls short.
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230 kV Fault in Dominion Zone Triggered PJM's Largest Load Transfer, About 3,800 MW
PJM's Matthew Wharton briefed the Operating Committee on August 6 about the July 22 fault in Dominion's zone. PJM said the resulting ACE Limit excursion recovered within 9 minutes, inside the 30-minute window required by reliability standard BAL-001-2 R2.
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PJM proposes Manual 14H rules to adopt IEEE 2800 inverter-resource standard
The draft revisions would add a new Section 9.15 and Attachment K, phasing in ride-through and frequency-response rules for new service requests starting June 22, 2027.
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PJM's Market Implementation Committee takes up a 60-calendar-day offer-verification exception timeline
PJM's Issue Charge would use the Quick Fix process to align Manual 11's offer-verification exception deadline to 60 calendar days, with committee work set to start immediately and run two months, ahead of winter operations.
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Pro forma RMR agreement and tariff redline package hit PJM's Members Committee
PJM's Members Committee took up a presentation on a pro forma Reliability Must-Run agreement, together with a package of tariff redlines marked for endorsement, on August 19, 2026, covering the terms for keeping a deactivating generator running after retirement to maintain reliability.
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PJM's ARRC User Group asks Members Committee to vote on adding "affordability" to PJM Board duties
The ARRC User Group presented the request to PJM's Members Committee on August 19, 2026, proposing that "affordability" be added to PJM's governing documents and to the duties and responsibilities of the PJM Board.
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ARRC User Group asks PJM Members Committee to add "affordability" to Board duties
The user group's proposal, passed April 29, asks the Members Committee to vote in August on adding "affordability" to the PJM Board's duties and responsibilities.
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