Publish Date: June 23, 2025
As data centers and other new customers arrive in PJM, the region faces rising costs and potential reliability challenges.
State decision-makers have control over how load growth is addressed. With proper oversight, timely planning, and action, states can enable economic growth and customer benefits tied to these new loads – without sacrificing reliability, affordability, or state policy objectives.
Topics: Wholesale Markets, Economic Impact, Transmission, Virtual Power Plants, Interconnection
Publish Date: May 19, 2025
A new resource, developed by Advanced Energy United, draws on several recent studies focused on the PJM region that capture how advanced energy technologies enable near-term load growth. The report shows that these solutions have the potential to unlock gigawatts of capacity on the grid – as long as states and PJM take action to deploy these critical tools.
Topics: Transmission, Virtual Power Plants, Interconnection
Publish Date: September 16, 2024
Historically, because transmission and distributed energy resources (DERs) exist on opposite ends of the electricity system, the two resources have often been planned, developed, and operated in silos. Conversations on the interplay between transmission and DERs often focus on these resources as substitutes for each other, rather than acknowledging the ways they can work in concert to achieve clean energy goals. However, as the clean energy revolution accelerates, the need for an integrated approach to energy infrastructure has never been more urgent.
Topics: Transmission, Distributed Energy Resources
Publish Date: February 26, 2024; Updated: March 7, 2024
Currently, over one million megawatts of generator and storage projects are actively seeking to connect to the U.S. transmission grid. The various grid interconnection processes across the nation have been slow and received criticism from a wide range of stakeholders for being dysfunctional. The 2024 Advanced Energy United Generator Interconnection Scorecard evaluates the outcomes and processes of the generator interconnection process across the seven U.S. regional grid operators (the RTOs/ISOs), finding some bright spots and room for significant improvement.
Topics: Wholesale Markets, Transmission
Publish Date: July 17, 2023
Released by IdeaSmiths LLC and co-funded by Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (Advanced Energy United's Texas state chapter) and Advanced Energy United, "ERCOT 2040: A Roadmap for Modernizing Texas' Electricity Infrastructure" outlines the most cost-effective path for the Texas electric grid to meet the state’s energy needs by 2040.
Topics: Texas, Transmission
Publish Date: September 26, 2022
On June 16, 2022, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) proposing changes to its regulations governing interconnection processes and agreements. The NOPR comes as interconnection delays across the country are slowing project development, with three times as many requests waiting in interconnection queues today as there were five years ago. FERC’s NOPR seeks to resolve these backlogs by proposing solutions that balance increased requirements for interconnecting generators to demonstrate commercial viability and “readiness” to stay in the interconnection queue and firmer obligations for transmission providers to complete studies on time.
“Understanding FERC’s Proposal for Relieving Interconnection Delays” summarizes the key provisions of FERC’s NOPR, describes how FERC proposes to change the responsibilities of interconnection customers and transmission providers, and highlights the challenges that FERC will need to address in a final ruling in order to break the delays and wait times that plague clean energy projects today.
Topics: State Policy, Wholesale Markets, Transmission
Updated: December 4, 2023; region-wide analysis published July 26, 2022
Topics: State Policy, Wholesale Markets, Transmission, Western RTO
Publish Date: July 6, 2022
Demand for renewable energy is growing in Indiana and across the country, with over 350 companies, over 180 cities across the U.S., and a growing number of institutions committing to power their operations with 100% clean energy. The ability to control energy costs and sources has always been a critical business priority, particularly for energy-intensive industries, organizations, and municipalities. As wind, solar and other renewable energy technologies continue to drop in price and increase in availability, renewable energy is an increasingly attractive option for companies seeking to lower costs, protect against fluctuating fuel prices, and meet their clean energy goals.
Topics: Wholesale Markets, Transmission
Publish Date: November 15, 2021
Updated: February 2022
With the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, funds will be available to state, local, and tribal governments for a variety of advanced energy infrastructure. The bill provides funding to address some of state and local policymakers’ top energy priorities, such as ensuring a reliable electric grid, lowering energy bills, and supporting advanced energy jobs. This document outlines key federal funding streams for supporting these priorities, as well as information about how to access the funds.
Topics: Economic Impact, Transmission, Federal Priorities