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The Center Square reports on rising load growth, rising energy costs, and rising reliability issues within Pennsylvania and the broader PJM region. United's Chris D'Agostino emphasized the importance of smart integrated energy planning to help optimize utility operations and investments, meet growing energy demand, and increase energy affordability for state residents.

Heatmap News reports on PJM Interconnection's escalating debate over how to manage demand. United's Jon Gordon provides context throughout the piece on PJM’s pending rule changes, the competing stakeholder proposals, and the challenge of balancing reliability, consumer protection, and rapid data center growth.

Utility Dive reports that PJM stakeholders failed to reach consensus on a set of proposals to govern how large loads, such as data centers, connect to the grid. In a bulletin on the meeting, United’s Jon Gordon said the vote highlights the difficulty of balancing resource adequacy, ratepayer costs, and rapid data center growth in a region already facing generation shortfalls and long timelines for new capacity.

Pennsylvania Capital-Star reports that the Trump administration has ordered the Eddystone Generating Station in Pennsylvania to remain operational past the facility's retirement date. Moreover, FERC approved a plan that allows PJM Interconnection to recover the costs of keeping the plant running. United's Jon Gordon raised concerns about future energy capacity in the PJM region, warning that the system-wide cost sharing plan would raise electricity costs for consumers.