PJM Case Study: Changing from Coal to NatGas for Power Generation

PJM is a regional transmission organization (RTO) coordinating the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia (essentially Appalachia or the northeastern U.S.). SNL Financial has crafted an excellent analysis of natural gas deliveries to the electrical generating plants of the PJM and has found that since 2008, natgas deliveries have doubled to PJM power plants--mostly due to their geography, sitting atop the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays. The article beings this way:

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