Heat affects the full length of the electric supply chain: from generation, through the grid, to utilities’ customers, says columnist Dej Knuckey.

The PJM Market Implementation Committee voted to endorse two packages of revisions to key parameters of the capacity market out of six offered by PJM and stakeholders that resulted from the Quadrennial Review.

PJM and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities are in discussions on how the transmission and interconnection facilities planned for the state’s offshore wind aspirations can be put on ice in the wake of all the generation developers pulling out of their projects.

The Pacific Northwest is on track to meet energy efficiency goals set in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s 2021 power plan after having saved 160 aMW through improvements in 2024, the council said in a news release.

PJM's Operating Committee heard an update on the Aug. 11 load-shedding event in Baltimore, which brought 20 MW offline for about half an hour following equipment failures at the Brandon Shores substation

PJM plans to modify and refile a proposal to revise how capacity interconnection rights can be transferred from a deactivating resource to a new unit.

SPP says it has cleared its backlog of generator interconnection requests that date back to 2018, paving the way for a transition to its “first-in-the-country” Consolidated Planning Process.

The Planning Committee voted to endorse a PJM quick fix proposal to expand provisional interconnection service to allow resources that are not fully deliverable to enter service as energy-only resources.

Texas regulators have approved Entergy Texas’ request to build two natural gas-powered units in MISO’s portion of the state, but they have limited the construction costs eligible for recovery to a combined $2.4 billion.