PJM Interconnection’s market monitoring unit (MMU) has supplied staff at FERC with information related to the recent market activity of a PJM market participant after a request for such information was submitted to the grid operator by FERC’s Division of Energy Market Oversight (DEMO).

DEMO, which is part of the Commission’s Office of Market Oversight and Investigations, made the request in an Oct. 20 e-mail to PJM. It sought information related to recent energy bids by the PJM market participant and recent daily operating details of certain facilities owned by the participant.

PJM’s MMU responded to the information request in an Oct. 27 filing at the federal agency, asking that its responses be treated as privileged and confidential. It did not specifically name the market participant that is the subject of the information request. The MMU also noted that its responses “constitute commercial and financial information that…is exempt from the mandatory public disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and should be withheld from public disclosure.”

Joe Bowring, chief of PJM’s MMU, made it clear to NGI last week that PPL Corp. is not the subject of the market activity-related information request submitted by FERC staff. “PPL was not the subject of the letter,” Bowring said.

After launching an investigation prompted by Pennsylvania regulators, the Pennsylvania attorney general this summer concluded that PPL EnergyPlus didn’t violate antitrust laws in PJM Interconnection’s market. On a related front, the company in June received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice in which the agency said that it had “favorably concluded” its investigation of the company related to possible manipulation of wholesale electricity markets (see NGI, June 23).

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