Since 2013, the country’s largest wholesale electricity market has doubled its natural gas combined-cycle plant capacity, sharply lowering the country’s emissions and energy costs, according to new data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). “Use of the coal fleet in PJM, the country’s largest wholesale electricity market, has fallen over the last decade, driven largely
Read More...Mandated retirements of thermal generation and a backlogged review process for new entries on the grid is hurting PJM Interconnection’s ability to meet growing demand through 2030 and threatening reliability in the nation’s largest interconnected market, according to a recently published PJM report. The solution: more natural gas and renewables. Natural Gas To Support Renewables
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas fired generation of electricity has been a huge win for Pennsylvania thanks to Marcellus Shale development. An article yesterday at Today In Energy reveals an important but seldom appreciated fact about about natural gas; that an electricity generating facility using it can achieve capacity factors of
Read More...Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The PJM grid is at great risk. It is threatened by the green virtue signaling of politicians such as Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf.] With Green New Dealers running Washington, D.C., and Gov. Tom Wolf pushing so-called green energy from Harrisburg, questions must be asked about the development
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