Axios reports on the Department of Energy's proposal for PJM Interconnection to address rising load growth and energy costs. United's Jon Gordon points out that the plan only offers short-term fixes and does not address the underlying issues at PJM, calling for reforms to speed up the utility's interconnection process so that more energy generation can come online.
The Trump administration's "energy dominance" council and a bipartisan group of governors unveiled a plan on Friday to address rising prices in the nation's largest power grid.
Electricity analyst Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies LLC, said it isn't clear "how this new program would actually work or fit into existing electric industry structure and state and federal law and regulations."Advanced Energy United, which represents energy companies and corporate buyers across clean-energy sectors, said the approach doesn't address core challenges such as making PJM's grid-connection process more efficient.
"The line for energy projects to connect to the power grid in the Mid-Atlantic has basically had a 'closed for maintenance' sign up for nearly four years now, and this proposal does nothing to fix that — or any of the other market and planning reforms that are long overdue," Jon Gordon, the group's director, said in a statement.Read the full article here.