Back in 2022, Manu Asthana arrived at the annual meeting of the Organization of PJM States with a message he has repeated frequently since then. Electricity demand was projected to grow like it had not in decades, generators were retiring at an accelerating rate, and their replacements were not being built at near the pace […]

Aftab Khan, PJM Interconnection Executive Vice President – Operations, Planning & Security, testified Oct. 16 about maintaining resource adequacy amid growing demand and operational complexity before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s annual Reliability Technical Conference. In the past, capacity auctions seamlessly facilitated the PJM generation fleet transition from mostly coal to natural gas as a […]

PJM Interconnection and its members have adequate resources to serve the forecasted demand for electricity this winter under expected conditions, although reserve margins continue to shrink with continued generator retirements and increasing demand. PJM, the grid operator for 13 states and the District of Columbia, expects to have approximately 179,800 MW of resources to meet […]