Power, markets, flexible RA,and the money behind the grid
Topic
6 stories on this topic, across the desks.
DATA
PJM's market monitor says 4,016.9 MW of forecast data center load was canceled or delayed — and if it is right, the grid's capacity gap is less than half what PJM claimed.
INVESTING
DOE's conditional loan commitment to Vistra finances uprates, not new reactors — and it shows how federal credit, a corporate PPA, and a tight PJM capacity market now stack together.
GRID
A four-day federal emergency order lets PJM dispatch specified units and, as a last resort, call on backup generation — a sign that tight conditions are no longer confined to summer peaks.
GRID
Grid planners built the system for the weather they knew. The weather they know is no longer the weather they get.
GRID
Reliability is about the everyday; resilience is about the extreme. Confusing the two leads to bad planning and bad spending.
GRID
Why 60 hertz is the grid's heartbeat, and how operators defend it every second of the day.