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The PJM capacity auction results demonstrate the critical need to immediately bring new generation, storage, and demand-side resources on-line. United’s Jon Gordon discusses the factors behind higher energy costs, highlighting the need for critical improvements to interconnection, siting, and permitting and outlining steps that PJM and states can take to unlock new capacity.

Advanced Energy United has created a resource for state legislators and regulators in PJM that outlines 10 specific, proactive actions state decision-makers can take right now to effectively manage load growth.

Advanced Energy United has released a new resource that summarizes the potential benefits of deploying three market-ready, non-gas tools to expand capacity in PJM states.

PJM Interconnection and Google announced a groundbreaking partnership to use artificial intelligence to streamline how new energy projects connect to the power grid.

PJM’s inability to quickly connect new large-scale energy sources to the grid cost consumers $7 billion in latest capacity auction, found new Grid Strategies analysis

While PJM is in the midst of an interconnection reform process, the slow pace of change continues to limit the supply of new energy, putting consumers at risk of even higher prices in future auctions. This report, prepared for Advanced Energy United by Grid Strategies, examines how outdated interconnection policies are driving up costs and outlines solutions to create a faster, more efficient process that ensures a reliable and affordable energy future.

To address potential electricity shortages, PJM Interconnection has proposed measures to expedite the development of new power plants in order to enhance grid reliability. Canary Media spoke with clean energy advocates, including United’s Caitlin Marquis, who argued that reforming current interconnection processes and investing in grid expansion could facilitate the integration of advanced energy solutions to meet electricity demand while supporting decarbonization goals.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved PJM Interconnection’s proposal to expedite the development of new power plants. Erie New Now spoke with United’s Jon Gordon who explained that this new approach favors fossil fuels over clean energy solutions and does not address the root of the issue, which is a faulty interconnection process.

National business association Advanced Energy United congratulates Mark Christie on his appointment to Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

As the “generator interconnection” process continues to lengthen electricity deployment timelines, regulators and energy developers are looking for efficiencies that can accelerate deployment of energy projects. A new report finds promising energy deployment gains that can be realized through interconnection process improvements alone, providing recommendations for how states can support the deployment of energy projects alongside advocating for interconnection reform.

Generator interconnection, the way that new large-scale energy resources plug in to the power grid is outdated and cumbersome, and a new report shows that fixing these so-called ‘interconnection’ processes could result in over $100 billion in economic benefits, and over one million years worth of work for Americans.

The Launch Committee for the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative released Step 2 of its Straw Proposal, which proposes to establish a new, independent Regional Organization (RO) to govern existing regional energy markets, as well as potentially provide additional market services in the future. Clean energy industry representatives provided the following statements on the proposal, which will also help advance efforts to build a Western RTO.