Clean Power
PJM is one of most coal-dependent grids in the country. It’s time for PJM to move past outdated fossil fuels and embrace clean, reliable sources of power.
Fossil fuel power plants are costly and inefficient, intensify the climate crisis, and harm public health—but PJM policies have hampered the transition to renewable energy sources, and kept polluting power plants running past their useful lives.
Renewables are the cheapest, quickest way to meet growing energy needs, but at PJM, fossil fuel interests stand in the way of the energy transition. We work within PJM and across the region to promote policies that expand and accelerate the adoption of cleaner, cheaper resources like wind, solar, and batteries.
Our Priorities:
Interconnection queue reform: Developers have proposed enough wind, solar and battery storage projects (about 290 gigawatts) to provide abundant and low-cost energy for the region and bring down prices in PJM's capacity market.
Unfortunately, these projects wait so long for final approval in PJM’s “interconnection queue” that most are in danger of never getting built. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has laid out new standards–Order 2023–for interconnection processing. PJM has been foot-dragging on compliance, asking for exceptions to a number of these standards. Although there’s more work to do, FERC took a step in the right direction when it ordered PJM to incorporate battery storage and Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) in commonsense ways in its grid planning.
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