PJM Gets 94 Applications to Expand & Build More Gas-Fired Power

In December, MDN told you the country’s largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection, which covers all or parts of 13 states, including PA, OH, and WV, proposed new changes to how it decides which new power plants can connect to the system first. The new policy *favors* adding natural gas-fired power over other types of power like unreliable solar and wind (see New PJM Policy Favors Gas-Fired Power Over Solar & Wind). The change comes in response to the rapidly increasing demand for more electricity from data centers and artificial intelligence computing. PJM’s gas-favoring policy change rankled the environmental left, which claims the new policy unfairly allows gas-fired projects to “jump the queue” ahead of unreliable renewables. Ignoring antis, FERC approved the plan in February (see FERC Approves PJM Plan to Fast-Track New Gas-Fired Power Plants). That opened the floodgates for new applications---some 94 of them!

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