Federal regulators are demanding that PJM Interconnection, the country’s biggest power market, find a faster way to connect ...
An updated analysis from the regional grid operator is expected to provide a reality check on data center growth.
A PJM market monitor report shows data center growth drove 40% of capacity costs in the last auction, highlighting a seismic ...
In non-data center news, offshore wind farms say they're losing millions a day and the government won't divulge the national ...
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PJM capacity auction signals higher electricity costs in 2026

PJM Interconnection’s 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction, conducted in December 2025, secured 134,479 megawatts of unforced capacity from generation and demand response resources to meet projected needs ...
PJM Interconnection, the organization that manages the transmission grid delivering electricity to about 65 million people from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes, badly needs more power. In ...
Data centers drove roughly 40% of PJM’s latest capacity auction costs, with billions tied to facilities not yet built but ...
Feb. 2—MORGANTOWN — PJM Interconnection — the regional power grid operator — is predicting a "significant growth in electricity demand " over the next 20 years. PJM estimates the peak summer demand ...
The latest PJM capacity auction cleared at the maximum allowed price—$333 per megawatt-day—and still came up short. Even at the price cap, the market could not buy enough power to meet PJM ...
Axion Power International, Inc.'s PowerCube battery energy storage and battery system is being integrated as a power resource for the PJM regulation market, which serves 58 million people in all or ...
With its members raking in billions of dollars from PJM’s contrived market rules, it should come as no surprise that the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), in an opinion piece this month in The ...
PJM Interconnection (PJM) has put into production an advanced energy management system, the PJM Advanced Control Center (AC 2) program, based on the Siemens/PJM Shared Architecture integration ...