June 9, 2026 | Source: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — Notice of Commission-Led Technical Conference, Docket No. AD26-7-000 (issued June 5, 2026)
FERC Calls a Technical Conference on How PJM Is Governed
On June 5, 2026, FERC issued a notice setting a Commission-led technical conference on PJM governance and stakeholder process reforms. It runs under Docket No. AD26-7-000.
"Commission-led" is the part worth noting. The Commissioners themselves will preside — not just staff. That signals FERC wants a direct look at how the nation's largest grid operator makes its rules.
The focus is governance and the stakeholder process: how proposals move from idea to filing, who gets a vote, and how PJM reaches consensus on the issues reshaping its footprint.
Why the Plumbing Matters to Operators
Governance sits upstream of everything you touch in the control room. Interconnection rules, large-load integration, cost allocation — they all flow out of the stakeholder process FERC is now examining.
This follows a busy stretch: FERC's December 2025 order directing PJM to write transparent co-location rules, and the January 2026 Statement of Principles on PJM. The pressure point is load growth — PJM projects roughly 32 GW of new peak demand by 2030, most of it data centers, arriving faster than a consensus-based process was built to handle.
If you operate, plan, or run compliance in the PJM footprint, track AD26-7-000. Changes to how proposals get approved will shape your interconnection timelines and planning assumptions well before any tariff language lands.
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