#pjm interconnection

Here we go.......the bureaucratic inability (or unwillingness, because of potential interference of donut eating by work demands) to issue permits, certificates and approvals for new power plants, mostly renewable power, and improvements to the transmission grid. I am not apologizing about the smart ass donut comment, because during my career as an attorney, I observed government and quasi-government bureaucrats at work, and it has been, and continues to be, a fucking joke.

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

The nation’s largest electrical grid operator has approved a new process for adding power plants to the sprawling transmission system it manages, including a two-year pause on reviewing and potentially approving some 1,200 projects, mostly solar power, that are part of a controversial backlog.

PJM Interconnection operates a competitive market for wholesale electricity in all or part of 13 states and the District of Columbia, from Virginia to northern Illinois. Its plan is the result of work over the past year by PJM and what it calls its stakeholders, according to a press release from PJM. They include electric utilities, electric transmission owners, state and consumer interests, and solar and wind developers.

“These changes represent a landmark accomplishment for PJM stakeholders and staff that establishes a better process to handle the unprecedented influx of generation interconnection requests and is critical to clearing the backlog of projects,” said PJM President and CEO Manu Asthana.

PJM remains committed to a strategy of “decarbonization policies while preserving reliability and cost-effectiveness,” Asthana said.

But the backlog, and a two-year pause on so many projects with the potential for even longer delays on new proposals, has frustrated a number of renewable energy developers.

In January, an outspoken Adam Edelen, a former Kentucky state auditor who runs a company working to bring solar projects and jobs to ailing coal communities in Appalachia, said he was concerned that “the kink in the system” was helping to delay effective climate policy in the United States. “The planet does not have time for a delay,” he said at the time.

Approval delays were putting solar developers in a financial bind and calling into question the Biden administration’s goal of having a carbon-free electricity grid in just 13 years, he cautioned.

Edelen late Thursday afternoon said he was still reviewing PJM’s announcement, which went out on Thursday.

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro stepped up his threats to withdraw from the PJM Interconnection if the nation’s largest grid operator doesn’t speed up interconnections of new supply and find ways to curb electricity price hikes. In a speech at a summit convened in Philadelphia to bring together the 13 states in the grid system, the Democrat said that PJM’s “slow, reactive approach” to addressing rising power demand “is no longer working for our states,” particularly “at a time when the Trump administration is cutting funding for energy projects.” Separately, in a Monday interview on Bloomberg TV, Shapiro said, “If PJM is not willing to look in the mirror and really reform itself, then I’m willing to go my own way, and Pennsylvania can stand alone in this effort.” 

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