PPL advises customers to explore cost-saving measures as price increase looms

PPL advises customers to explore cost-saving measures as price increase looms

Allentown, Pa. — Because of ongoing regional energy market conditions, electric generation supply prices are expected to rise throughout Pennsylvania and the entire PJM Interconnection region. This price increase will impact PPL Electric Utilities' residential and small business customers beginning…

How fast-tracking fossil gas could snarl the Midwest grid

A battle is brewing over who gets to plug into the Midwest’s power grid first. Utilities and state regulators are backing a plan that would fast-track certain new fossil-gas power plants while leaving hundreds of gigawatts of competitively bid solar, wind, and battery projects mired in the boglike interconnection…

PJM fast-tracks 11.8 GW, mainly gas, to bolster power supplies

Natural gas-fired generation accounts for 69% of selected Reliability Resource Initiative capacity, followed by batteries at 19% and nuclear at 12%.

PJM selects 51 fast-track power projects under Reliability Resource Initiative

PJM Interconnection (PJM), under its RRI, has selected 51 projects that can come online quickly and provide more than 9.3GW of capacity.