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PJM Interconnection
Company name:
PJM Interconnection (Visit website)
City & State:
Norristown ,
PA
Industry type:
Energy Producers- Developers
Company Description:
PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.
PJM’s role as a federally regulated RTO means that it acts independently and impartially in managing the regional transmission system and the wholesale electricity market. PJM ensures the reliability of the largest centrally dispatched grid in North America.
PJM’s members, totaling more than 500, include power generators, transmission owners, electricity distributors, power marketers and large consumers. The company is headquartered in Valley Forge, Pa.
PJM’s Operations
PJM's staff monitors the high-voltage transmission grid 24 hours a day, seven days a week. PJM keeps the electricity supply and demand in balance by telling power producers how much energy should be generated and by adjusting import and export transactions.
In managing the grid, the company dispatches about 163,500 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity over 56,350 miles of transmission lines. More than 51 million people live in the PJM region.
PJM’s experts study hundreds of "what if" scenarios and prepare to deal with virtually any event. Each variable that might affect supply and demand for electricity is carefully considered – from extreme weather conditions, emergency situations and equipment failures to the more easily anticipated cycles of hours, days, weeks and seasons.
PJM exercises a broader reliability role than that of a local electric utility. PJM system operators conduct dispatch operations and monitor the status of the grid over a wide area, using an enormous amount of telemetered data from nearly 74,000 points on the grid. This gives PJM a big-picture view of regional conditions and reliability issues, including those in neighboring systems.
PJM’s Market
The company coordinates the continuous buying, selling and delivery of wholesale electricity through robust, open and competitive spot markets. In operating the markets, PJM balances the needs of suppliers, wholesale customers and other market participants and continuously monitors market behavior.
PJM’s wholesale electricity market is similar to a stock exchange. It establishes a market price for electricity by matching supply with demand. Online eTools make trading easy for members/customers by enabling them to submit bids and offers and providing them with continuous real-time data.
Market participants can follow market fluctuations as they happen and make informed decisions rapidly, responding to high prices and bringing supply resources to the region when demand is high.
PJM has administered more than $103 billion in energy and energy-service trades since the regional markets opened in 1997.
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Company News
Long waitlists a 'leading barrier' for getting wind, solar online - Chicago Tribune (news.google.com)
LS Power Is Selling Gas-Fired Plants That Bolster Biggest US Grid - Bloomberg (news.google.com)
Up to 58 GW faces retirement in PJM by 2030 without replacement capacity in sight: market monitor - Yahoo Finance (news.google.com)
New scorecard rates nation's grid managers on connecting renewables • Kentucky Lantern - Kentucky Lantern (news.google.com)
PJM watchdog warns 58000 megawatts of power generation may shut by 2030 - E&E News by POLITICO (news.google.com)
Court scraps last-minute FERC rule change in largest power market - E&E News by POLITICO (news.google.com)
Report: VA grid manager needs better interconnection process - Public News Service (news.google.com)
Preng & Associates Recruits Senior Operations Leader for PJM Interconnection - Hunt Scanlon Media (news.google.com)
PJM’s interconnection delays threaten clean-energy goals - NJ Spotlight News (news.google.com)
ERCOT, CAISO offer best grid interconnection processes; PJM, ISO-NE the worst, report finds - Yahoo Finance (news.google.com)
PJM Appoints Aftab Khan as Executive Vice President – Operations, Planning & Security - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Grid operator PJM could add 5.5 GW of renewables with grid-enhancing technologies - pv magazine USA (news.google.com)
How the biggest US grid operator could add 6.6GW without rebuilding lines - Smart Energy International (news.google.com)
PJM Thwarts Maryland's Coal-Free Ambitions While Costing Marylanders Millions - Sierra Club (news.google.com)
PJM Capacity Auction To Proceed With Issuance of FERC Orders - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
New Jersey Kicks Off Work on Second Offshore Wind Transmission Tender | Offshore Wind - Offshore WIND (news.google.com)
NJBPU & PJM Advance Offshore Wind Transmission Effort - njbmagazine.com (news.google.com)
PJM Initiates Transitional Interconnection Queue - RTO Insider (news.google.com)
Transition Cycle 1 of New Interconnection Process Begins Jan. 22 - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM Appoints Former Maryland Regulator Jason Stanek to New Governmental Services Role - PR Newswire (news.google.com)
Piedmont Council to Hold Power Line Meeting at Woodgrove HS - Loudoun Now (news.google.com)
PJM President and CEO Manu Asthana Named 2024 ISO/RTO Council Chair - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM transmission zone to see grid loads increase 40% by 2039 - DatacenterDynamics (news.google.com)
Get a load of this: PJM doubles growth forecasts (again) - Power Engineering®️ (news.google.com)
PJM Interconnection predicts long-term electricity demand growth through 2039 - Daily Energy Insider (news.google.com)
Top US grid operator sees electric vehicles, industry driving up peak power demand - Reuters (news.google.com)
What PJM Can Learn from MISO About Transmission Planning - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) (news.google.com)
2023 in Review: Planning for the Reliability of the Future Grid Amid Dynamic Change - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM Interconnection expected to clear 300 new generation projects in 2024 - Daily Energy Insider (news.google.com)
New Interconnection Process Reaches Next Milestone - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
US FERC okays $1.2 billion PJM settlement for outages during 2022 storm - Reuters (news.google.com)
The clean energy backlog barely budged this year. What's the way… - Canary Media (news.google.com)
FERC Rule Will Get Clean Energy onto the U.S. Power Grid Faster - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) (news.google.com)
PJM Planning Tool Updated for Enhanced Grid Visualization - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM Makes Multiple Reliability-Focused Improvements To Prepare for Winter - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
FirstEnergy Subsidiaries Awarded More Than $800 Million in Transmission Upgrades - FirstEnergy Corp. (news.google.com)
Preng & Associates Seeking Senior Operations Leader for PJM Interconnection - Hunt Scanlon Media (news.google.com)
The Window of Opportunity for Transmission at PJM Is Still Open - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) (news.google.com)
PJM Approves Proposal for 500 kV Power Lines Across Western Loudoun - Loudoun Now (news.google.com)
Finishing Generator Interconnection Reform - R Street (news.google.com)
Can PJM’s Power Capacity Market Overhaul Drive a Revenue Rebound? - FactSet Insight (news.google.com)
Power Line Objections Move to PJM | News | loudounnow.com - Loudoun Now (news.google.com)
PJM Announces Executive Appointments - PR Newswire (news.google.com)
PJM Presents Grid Operator Recommendations for Proposed Greenhouse Gas Rule - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
US POWER TRACKER: PJM forward power, gas prices remain well below year-ago levels - S&P Global (news.google.com)
PJM Interconnection Listed Among Top Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in the United States - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
New Report Finds MISO, PJM Could Save Billions Through Interregional Tx Expansion - RTO Insider (news.google.com)
Plans proposed to meet future electric needs in Ohio, Pennsylvania as demand increases, power plants close - WFMJ (news.google.com)
PJM seeking to expand regional transmission system to meet demand - Daily Energy Insider (news.google.com)
PJM Announces Organization Changes - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Senate ERE Committee, Ohio Public Utilities Committees to Hold Joint Hearing on Inter-State Relationships within the ... - Pennsylvania Senate Republicans (news.google.com)
PJM states forging ahead to create a voluntary forward clean energy market - S&P Global (news.google.com)
Outdated grid practices could stymie Virginia clean energy targets - Energy News Network (news.google.com)
What FERC-PJM Negotiations Mean For The Energy Industry - Law360 (news.google.com)
FERC's New Interconnection Rule Modernizes the Process to Bring Clean Energy Online - Earthjustice (news.google.com)
Report Examines Private Equity Power Plants in PJM, Growing Financial Risks - Public News Service (news.google.com)
FERC Finalizes Rule Adopting Interconnection Reforms - Orrick (news.google.com)
FERC's Interconnection Reform: Why It Matters for the Clean Energy Transition - Center on Global Energy Policy at ... - Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy (news.google.com)
Ameren study recommends keeping central and southern Illinois on current power grid - Peoria Public Radio (news.google.com)
US POWER TRACKER: PJM Gas-fired power output up on year, power forwards decline - S&P Global (news.google.com)
Largest US Power Grid PJM Declares Emergency Conditions For July 27 - Bloomberg (news.google.com)
The largest US power grid has issued an emergency alert - Quartz (news.google.com)
US Grid Operator PJM Declares Level One Emergency Amid Scorching Heat - U.S. News & World Report (news.google.com)
Nation's largest electric grid operator declares Level-1 emergency amid scorching heat - Fox Weather (news.google.com)
Scorching heat stresses US power grids, prices soar - Reuters (news.google.com)
US grid operator PJM declares level-one emergency amid scorching heat - Reuters (news.google.com)
PJM Interconnection Awarded on the Forbes America's Best Small Employers 2023 List - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM Releases Winter Storm Elliott Report - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Transition to New Interconnection Process Begins July 10 - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Interconnection Constraints Threaten Success of Clean Energy Projects - POWER magazine (news.google.com)
How old coal plants could help fuel a renewable boom - E&E News by POLITICO (news.google.com)
Studies: Speeding Clean Energy Grid Links Can Boost Projects, Jobs - Engineering News-Record (news.google.com)
New Interconnection Process Aims To Ensure Reliability, Enable State Policies - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Pa. renewable energy projects get boost - NPR (news.google.com)
199000 job-years await PJM approval of 167 GW of solar, storage and wind - pv magazine USA (news.google.com)
3 Reasons the Interconnection Queue Is the Next Hurdle for Renewable Energy - AltEnergyMag (news.google.com)
PJM Annual Report Looks Back on Energy Transition Milestones in 2022 - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
FERC aims to fix the grid's renewable energy backlog. Can it? - E&E News by POLITICO (news.google.com)
Asthana Testifies Before Senate Committee on Preserving Reliability of Evolving Grid - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM urges FERC to reject gas generators' efforts to avoid winter storm penalties - S&P Global (news.google.com)
A backed-up grid threatens clean energy growth from Virginia to… - Canary Media (news.google.com)
Grid interconnection delays threaten clean energy goals - Energy News Network (news.google.com)
Sluggish pace of interconnection might jeopardize states' renewable goals, report says • New Jersey Monitor - New Jersey Monitor (news.google.com)
NRDC: PJM Interconnection Queue Roadblock to State Renewable Goals - RTO Insider (news.google.com)
PJM's pace of interconnection will not meet demand through 2028, says NRDC - pv magazine USA (news.google.com)
Breaking Through the PJM Interconnection Queue Crisis - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) (news.google.com)
Waiting Game: How the Interconnection Queue Threatens Renewable Development in PJM - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) (news.google.com)
Tackling High Costs and Long Delays for Clean Energy Interconnection - Energy.gov (news.google.com)
PJM Summer Outlook: Sufficient Supply To Serve Electric Demand Under Anticipated Conditions - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Outlook 2023: PJM seeing a surge in solar, less new natural gas - S&P Global (news.google.com)
PJM Details Resource Retirements, Replacements and Risks - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
Understanding RTOs: the PJM Interconnection - National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (news.google.com)
2022 in Review: Planning for the Future Grid - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
FERC Approves PJM Interconnection Process Reforms to Address Backlog - Orrick (news.google.com)
FERC Approves PJM Generator Interconnection Queue Reforms - White & Case LLP (news.google.com)
PJM Launches Public Tool To Assess Potential Impacts of New Generation on the Grid - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
FERC Approves Interconnection Process Reform Plan - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
PJM Interconnection Appoints Carl F. Coscia as Vice President and Chief Risk Officer - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)
The Largest U.S. Grid Operator Puts 1,200 Mostly Solar Projects on Hold for Two Years - InsideClimate News (news.google.com)
2021 in Review: Planning Efforts Focus on Future Grid - PJM Inside Lines (news.google.com)