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PJM, Facing Capacity Shortage as Early as 2026/2027 Delivery Year, Agrees to Lower Auction Price Cap

January 29, 2025 admin Business, capacity markets, Coal, energy infrastructure, energy policy, energy security, ferc, full coverage, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, nerc, news, Pennsylvania, pjm, power, Power Demand, power planning, reliability, Renewables

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:45:39 +0000

PJM Interconnection and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro have settled a lawsuit over PJM’s capacity market pricing, agreeing to lower the grid operator’s auction price cap from over $500/MW-day to $325/MW-day. […]

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Restoration Efforts Continue Following Complete Blackout of Puerto Rico’s Power Grid

January 3, 2025 admin grid, news, power, power grid, power outage, Puerto Rico, reliability, T&D

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:34:32 +0000

LUMA, Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system operator, has struggled to restore power to some of its customers in the wake of an outage that left the entire […]

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Five Critical Insights from NERC’s 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment

December 19, 2024 admin Business, electricity demand growth, electrification, energy security, energy storage trends, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gear, generator retirements, grid, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, natural gas infrastructure, nerc, news, power, Power Demand, power system, reliability, renewable energy integration, Renewables, resilience, transmission development, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:31:46 +0000

Well over half of North America faces a potential shortage of electricity supplies in the coming years, compounded by surging demand growth, accelerating generator retirements, and delays in resource development, […]

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Texas Mandates Cryptomining Registration, Power Demand Reporting, to Bolster Grid Reliability

November 23, 2024 admin Business, cryptocurrency mining, energy demand, energy security, ercot, full coverage, Gas, large flexible load, Markets, news, Power Demand, power grid management, puct, reliability, renewable energy integration, texas, texas energy policy, trends, virtual currency mining

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:09:36 +0000

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has adopted a rule for reliability purposes requiring cryptocurrency mining facilities in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region to register with […]

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