On October 18, 2019, in Docket No. ER16-1335-000, PJM submitted its second of two informational reports required by the Commission’s August 26, 2016 order. The report includes a list of projects that address transmission needs driven by reliability violations on transmission facilities that operate below 200 kV that were included in a competitive proposal window and a list of such projects that were exempted from a competitive proposal window in 2018. Due to administrative oversight, PJM did not timely submit this report in January 2019.

On October 17, 2019, in Docket No. ER18-1730-001, the Commission issued an order denying American Municipal Power Inc.’s (AMP’s) August 30, 2018 request for rehearing of the Commission’s July 31, 2019 order (July 31 order). The July 31 Order accepted PJM’s Phase 2 revisions to the PJM Tariff and PJM Operating Agreement to: (1) charge or credit pseudo-tie transactions from MISO to the PJM-MISO interface for real-time deviations from day-ahead schedules for congestion resulting from market-to-market coordination pursuant to the Joint Operating Agreement between MISO and PJM; and (2) provide a new transaction type to hedge exposure to financial risk for pseudo-tied resources from PJM into MISO.

On October 17, 2019, in Docket Nos. ER18-136-004 and ER18-137-004, the Commission issued an order denying American Municipal Power Inc.’s August 30, 2018 request for rehearing of the Commission’s July 31, 2019 order. The July 31 Order accepted MISO and PJM’s Phase 1 revisions to the MISO-PJM Joint Operating Agreement to provide for a phased resolution of certain issues involving overlapping congestion charges affecting pseudo-tied generation in MISO and PJM.