PA Gov. Shapiro Continues to Bully PJM Grid to Dump Free Market

Last Friday, the Trump administration officials joined several governors from the 13 states that are part of the PJM Interconnect grid to outline a broad plan they say will ensure customers of the grid will not face skyrocketing electric prices due to new AI data centers getting built in the region (see White House Joins 13 Governors to Gang Up on PJM re Data Centers). Neither the White House nor the governors who attended (including the ringleader, PA Gov. Josh Shapiro) invited PJM to attend their blabfest. PJM didn't take it lying down. On the same day as the blabfest, PJM released its own plan to add new data centers while controlling rising electricity costs (see PJM Unveils Its Own Plan to Add AI Data Center, Control Costs). We now have competing visions for how best to add new capacity while controlling costs: distort the free market with price controls (Shapiro's plan) or use the free market to bring costs down (PJM's plan).

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