Page 20 - Electrical Generation News Today

PJM is the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. It serves 65 million people in 13 states plus the District of Columbia (including PA, OH, and WV). PJM is coming under criticism for an almost-blackout during the recent Christmas cold snap. If not for certain gas-fired peaker plants, like that in the Little Town

The radicals of Earthjustice have struck again. Representing two other disgusting radical groups--the Sierra Club and Clean Air Coalition of Western New York--last week Earthjustice filed a lawsuit to block the sale of a truly tiny (55 megawatt) gas-fired power plant in Western New York (near Niagara Falls) to a Canadian bitcoin operator. Gov. Hochul

In a modern twist on an old story, the little town of Bethlehem (this one in Pennsylvania) provided a savior this past Christmas--in the form of a natural gas-fired power plant. The Bethlehem Energy Center, owned by Calpine, received permission (indeed, strong encouragement) from the U.S. Dept of Energy (at the request of the PJM

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the country. In December 2021, MDN told

James Daly, vice president for energy supply at New England's largest electric utility, Eversource, recently delivered some blunt truth to regulators in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Daly told them if they want to lower the insanely high price of electricity in the region right now, in the short term, they need to import more foreign LNG,

It's that time of year. Typically at the end of a year, or the very beginning of a new year, publications will pontificate on what they predict will happen in the coming 12 months. We've seen a number of such articles about the energy space, including some predictions targeted specifically for the Marcellus/Utica. We've selected

We came "this close" to a major electricity blackout in New England over the Christmas break, during the bomb cyclone cold snap called Winter Storm Elliott. The ONLY thing that prevented a major blackout (with people freezing to death) was...oil. Fuel oil, specifically. So-called renewable energy--solar and wind--bombed out during the bomb cyclone. Natural gas

The Freeport LNG export terminal, located in Quintana Island, Texas, has been offline and not producing LNG since early June due to an explosion (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). Freeport has changed its estimated restart date multiple times. The most recent declaration by Freeport LNG that it will

Last week PPL Corporation subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company announced today a plan to replace 1,500 megawatts of aging coal-fired generation (nearly one-third of Kentucky's coal fleet!) with two 621-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle units along with several unreliable, intermittent solar projects. The coal-fired plants are due to be retired by

The U.S. power system is facing “unprecedented” and “widespread” reliability risks this winter, according to the nation’s grid reliability coordinator, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Why? Because the Biden-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has blocked new natural gas pipelines and has introduced new policies aimed at forcing the electric grid to switch over