"More than 50 GW of solar, wind, and batteries can now connect to PJM’s grid. It could help drive down costs — if states, utilities, and hyperscalers make it happen."
"The country’s biggest energy market has a problem: It can’t build enough power plants to keep up with electricity demand.
For PJM Interconnection’s 67 million customers across 13 states, the consequences are ever-higher utility bills. For PJM itself, it’s unrelenting political pressure, from blue-state lawmakers on up to President Donald Trump.
Familiar culprits are at the heart of the issue. PJM’s interconnection queue is snarled and slow. Its capacity market prices are through the roof. And, yes, power-hungry data centers are driving demand to heights that even a well-functioning system might struggle to meet.
The situation has spurred many proposed solutions, including Trump’s prescription that PJM should simply “build big power plants again,” specifically, coal, gas, and nuclear. State lawmakers have, for their part, focused on trying to limit the development of increasingly unpopular data centers."
