One of the main barriers to the clean energy transition is our current transmission system, which simply isn’t ready.…
When Winter Storm Elliott slammed the United States with freezing temperatures just before Christmas in 2022, nearly 40…
Power generator members of PJM are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the independent agency that oversees the…
The December storm that brought extreme cold to much of the nation demonstrated—yet again—that fossil fuels fail when electricity is…
Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
It Is Past Time to Upgrade Our Power Grid for New Challenges
December 15, 2022Part of NRDC’s year-end series reviewing 2022 climate & clean energy developments For more than a decade and…
PJM
Fossil Fuel Fearmongering at PJM Threatens to Waste Millions and Delay Renewables by Years
December 7, 2022For years, it’s been an open secret that PJM’s overestimates of how much power they need has driven a…
There are about 1,300 gigawatts (GW) of new resources—primarily renewables and storage—waiting to connect to power grids across…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience
FERC’s Winter Outlook Shows Need for an Updated Grid
October 15, 2022In its much-anticipated winter assessment, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) forecasts that U.S. electricity markets should have…
A proposal from grid operator PJM Interconnection is designed to start working through the backlog of wind and…
Consumers across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest will pay less next year after PJM’s latest capacity auction showed that markets can…
Cutting emissions from our power grid is going to require a lot more transmission lines. And, I mean, a lot. Long distance…
Capacity Market• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience
How to Save Four Billion without Really Trying
June 8, 2021Plan ahead, they always say. Turns out that might not always be the best advice: thanks in part…
Power grid operator PJM will soon hold an auction to line up electricity supply for 2022 and 2023. In that…
Capacity Market• Climate Change• Markets• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience
A Hopeful Sign for PJM Capacity Reform
February 1, 2021PJM Interconnection, which coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the…
Capacity Market• Markets• PJM• Planning• Renewable Energy• RTO Governance
Transforming PJM is the key to a clean energy grid
July 14, 2020Voters and consumers from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Lakes are demanding clean energy. State governments have answered with policies and goals calling for…
Capacity Market• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Litigation• PJM• Planning
FERC’s Power Grab
April 21, 2020A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in court to reverse FERC’s…
Capacity Market• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• RTO Governance
New CEO Faces Old Problems in the PJM Market
November 21, 2019Manu Asthana’s new job will not be easy. PJM’s new CEO inherits an organization recovering from financial scandal, at odds with…
Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
To Green the Grid, Take a Lesson from the Auto Industry
July 15, 2019Consider for a moment why hybrid cars are so efficient: most of the time, when you’re cruising, the…
Markets• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
While Power Plants Fail, the Grid Works
February 13, 2019Fossil fuel plant owners hype their reliability, but when the weather turned bitterly cold in late January, coal…
Demand Response• FERC• PJM• Reliability and Resilience
For Demand Response, Second Best Isn’t Good Enough
January 9, 2019A major cost to the power grid is handling peak load—making sure that there is enough power available…