Lost in Transmission: World’s Biggest Machine Needs Update
America’s grid carries electricity from over 7,700 power plants across 707,000 miles of high-voltage lines, and through millions of miles of low-voltage lines...
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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
PJM Auction Illustrates Importance of Demand Curve Fix
PJM, a grid operator for 65 million customers, recently conducted an auction that procured 22 percent extra capacity over its customers’ projected need. Thatâ...
PJM Auction: Wind, Solar, Efficiency Still Face Barriers
While the auction results show an uptick in market participation of renewable and demand-side resource participation, PJM’s market rules still impose unnecess...
What’s Resilience? It’s Not More Fuel or Higher Prices, PJM
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission early this year rejected the Department of Energy proposal that would have further subsidized coal and nuclear power pl...
PJM Offers Two Proposals: A Rock and a Hard Place
PJM, the transmission grid operator for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, filed two competing proposals Monday at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,...
Diverse Coalition Sets Forth Vision for FERC Power Markets
Seeking to fix growing problems with certain wholesale electricity markets, an unusual coalition of rural-cooperative and publicly-owned electric utilities, ind...