Manu Asthana, CEO of PJM
The CEO of the country's largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection, which covers all or parts of 13 states, including PA, OH, and WV, is ratcheting up his rhetoric about his concerns that PJM is heading for outages if new sources of power don't come online quickly. At a recent meeting of the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI), the PJM CEO said, “I feel more concerned today than I did two years ago about resource adequacy. Load is growing much faster than we had projected then, which even back then was an eye-popping set of numbers.” He also said, "We need capacity – a lot of capacity." Chief among what PJM needs is more gas-fired power plants.
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