OpenAI’s favoured strategy was always to just outspend everyone. That’s why DeepSeek just saying they could do AI training cheaper crashed the Nasdaq in January. But Sam Altman’s got only one trick…| Pivot to AI
Brandon Shores Unit 2 and both Wagner units can return to service once startup is complete, if dispatched by PJM Interconnection. Unit 1 at Brandon Shores will remain offline until the damaged transmission facilities are repaired. The post Substation failure trips Talen Energy units, triggers limited outages in central Maryland appeared first on Power Engineering.| Coal News - Power Engineering
Governors from across the PJM Interconnection will hold a technical conference today in Philadelphia to address wholesale electricity costs, governance, and market reforms to increase elected officials’ control and oversight over the non-partisan regional grid operator. The post PJM Governors’ ‘Solution’ to Rising Costs Amounts to More Red Tape and Bureaucracy appeared first on EPSA.| EPSA
There’s been a lot of buzz about the impact of data centers on electricity demand–CUB Illinois Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz recently spoke at length about it on a Chicago radio station. This Q&A attempts to get through the hype and give Illinois consumers some facts. What are data centers? A data center is a facility that houses computer systems used for storing, processing and distributing data. A growing number of these facilities are used to power artificial intelligence. A r...| Citizens Utility Board
PJM's Critical Issue Fast Path accelerated stakeholder process will inform a potential FERC filing on reliably serving large loads.| Power Engineering
According to Mark Christie, outgoing Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the grid reliability crisis is here as…| IER
EPSA President and CEO describes his time in Wyoming, where he spoke at UWyoming's School of Energy Resources, toured the area, and more.| EPSA
By Clara Summers Manager, CUB’s Consumers for a Better Grid Campaign You may have seen a flurry of news about electric bill increases due to something called a “capacity auction.” Or worse, you opened your June ComEd bill and saw a sharp uptick. You can learn more about PJM’s capacity market and this year’s price spike in our previous blog, and by visiting our Help Center. Sadly, there’s more bad news. Prices are going up yet again–next June. Let’s break it down. So what...| Citizens Utility Board
As tech firms snap up clean firm power with PPAs to power data center load growth, Dominion's demand challenges have spread to PPL. Can PJM as a whole keep up?| Grid Status Exports
Ahead of PJM Interconnection's next power auction, lawmakers seek to avoid unnecessary cost burdens on ratepayers.| Power Engineering
PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, and IESO exceeded last summer's peak demand, and did so before July. With load climbing beyond forecast, we break down how each region responded and navigated this record-breaking early-season heat event.| Grid Status Exports
MISO and PJM have finally seen substantial solar growth over the past year, but this new generation resource is also affecting the existing stack, altering the operations of coal and gas.| Grid Status Exports
With continued rapid growth in data centers, PJM's demand ecosystem is changing, but the market's resource mix has yet to add its own flexible assets.| Grid Status Exports
The Delmarva peninsula is penned in by geography with limited internal generation and strong demand. Managing transmission will be key as the region's fuel mix evolves.| Grid Status Exports
Prior to the current datacenter demand explosion, far west Texas in ERCOT and Dominion in PJM were already experiencing significant demand growth.| Grid Status Exports
As the first major winter storms of 2025 unfold, the unique risks of winter weather on the grid are coming into focus. Let’s explore winter's impact on the grid and how regions are adapting to these evolving challenges.| Grid Status Exports
Tracking solar's growth across US markets and its contribution to peak demand in 2024.| Grid Status Exports
Parsing Dominion Energy's place in PJM, now and into the future.| Grid Status Exports
August 22, 2024 On July 30, PJM announced the results of its capacity auction for 2025-2026, which showed total costs of nearly $14.7 billion, compared to last year’s $2.2 billion. There are two major causes for blame: fossil fuel un-reliability and PJM’s failure to speedily connect thousands of megawatts of wind, solar, and storage to the grid. This was foreseeable and preventable, and PJM’s failure to allow for new clean energy to come online and plan for more transmission has forced ...| Sustainable FERC Project
