Ohio

Ohio Capital Journal reports that Ohio ratepayers may see further increases in their electric bills when PJM Interconnection releases its annual capacity auction results. United’s Jon Gordon discussed the different factors that drove energy rate hikes in last year’s PJM capacity auction, including slow interconnection processes, poor transmission planning, and rising energy demand.

A two-year pause in formally accepting new requests will come with improvements in PJM’s interconnection process. They won’t solve all the problems, but they are a good start, and they can’t come soon enough.