August 19, 2024 States Newsroom: Market problems, poor planning causing price hikes in nation’s largest electric market, critics contend
After years of climbing electric prices nationwide, customers in the United States’ largest power market are about to get squeezed harder.
“The tools to enhance reliability are in PJM’s hands,” said Clara Summers, campaign manager for Consumers for a Better Grid, a watchdog group that is part of the Citizens Utility Board of Illinois. “Instead PJM is dragging its feet on the clean energy transition and doing everything it can to keep fossil fuel plants online and ultimately ratepayers are the ones who suffer from this shortsightedness.”