The Fuel-Mix Saving America’s Largest Grid From Blackouts Today Power prices soared on Thursday across PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states, as a brutal multi-day heat dome pushed electricity demand toward critically high levels and raised the risk of rolling blackouts. Ahead of triple-digit temperatures today across the Mid-Atlantic, including Washington, DC, Baltimore, and New York, PJM has declared a level 2 grid emergency and ordered emergency load reductions. The alert, one step below a warning of imminent rolling blackouts, applied across PJM’s territory from Illinois to Washington, DC. Under North American… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
