US EditionTo Prevent Blackouts, Trump Administration Keeps an Aging Pa. Power Plant Online Through Summer
- The U.S. Department of Energy directed the owner of the Eddystone power plant in Pennsylvania to maintain operations through August 28, 2025, to help avoid power outages across the 13-state mid-Atlantic region.
- The order followed PJM Interconnection's concerns over rising electricity demand and the shutdown of aging plants, despite PJM previously approving the units' retirement.
- Eddystone's units 3 and 4, which can produce 760 megawatts, were scheduled to shut down, but the department intervened as a precaution during the hottest summer months.
- PJM called the order a prudent, term-limited step allowing study of the plant’s future, while environmental groups criticized it as an 'environmental injustice' due to pollution concerns.
- The order highlights the balance Pennsylvania must find between reliable electricity, economic interests, and clean energy goals amid ongoing energy policy debates.
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To prevent blackouts, Trump administration orders Eddystone plant to stay open
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The Energy Department’s order “will result in American households paying even higher electricity bills,” warned one consumer advocate. Consumers are set to foot the bill after the Trump administration intervened late last week to prevent the closure of the fossil fuel-powered Eddystone Generating Station, a Pennsylvania plant owned by Constellation Energy that was set to […] The post Trump Administration Uses Emergency Power to Rescue Another Dy…
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Virginia tied to grid emergency cited in Department of Energy order
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy has issued an emergency order to keep a Pennsylvania power plant running past its scheduled retirement, citing concerns about electricity supply during high-demand periods.
The U.S. Department of Energy ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania, to keep its turbines running during the hottest months of the summer as a precaution against power cuts on the power grid in 13 states of the Middle Atlantic. The department's order to the network operator, PJM Interconnection, regarding the Eddystone power plant, just south of Philadelphia over the Delaware River, is the department's secon…
To prevent blackouts, Trump administration orders aging Pa. plant to stay online
The U.S. Department of Energy is ordering an aging oil and gas power plant on the Delaware River to stay online through summer months amid fears of regional electricity shortages.
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