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Power Grid

New Jersey Orders Probe, Demands Transparency From PJM

Two new measures target PJM Interconnection’s secretive governance after a 20 percent jump in electricity prices forced the Garden State to fund a $430 million relief program.

By Rambo Talabong

A crew with the Public Service Electric and Gas Company work on power lines in Ridgefield, N.J. Credit: EMAZ/VIEWpress
A foreman for the solar company Sunrun installs a 215-pound lithium-ion battery at a home in Granada Hills, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2020. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

Air conditioning units hang out the windows of a housing project during a summer heat wave in the Bronx borough of New York on July 11, 2024. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New York Can’t Meet Its Ambitious Climate Targets. Maybe the Plan Was Doomed From the Start

By Lauren Dalban

A view of the Prairie View A&M University Solar Lab in Prairie View, Texas. Credit: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Legislation Will Constrict the Growth of Texas’ Clean Energy Industry and its Power Grid

By Arcelia Martin

A view of the coal-fired Brandon Shores Power Plant in Baltimore. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Consumer Watchdog Accuses Regional Grid Operator of Overcharging Marylanders for Power

By Aman Azhar

A view of the entrance to a ranch near Dubois, Wyo. Credit: Louise Johns/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘An Unlikely Coalition’ Failed to Expand Rooftop Solar in Wyoming. Lawmakers Plan to Try Again

By Jake Bolster

PJM Interconnection claims that these power projects are needed to help meet growing energy demand and keep the grid reliable. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Federal Regulator’s Approval for Gas Plant ‘Queue-Jumping’ Sparks Outrage

By Aman Azhar

A view of Jupiter Power’s battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

More Solar and Battery Storage Were Added to Texas’ Grid Than Any Other Power Source Last Year

By Arcelia Martin

Sandra Edwards, who lives in Houston’s Fifth Ward, is still trying to recover from Hurricane Beryl, which badly damaged her home last July. “The government doesn’t care about us,” she says. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters

By Jana Cholakovska, Public Health Watch

A view of the coal-fired Brandon Shores Power Plant, which supplies energy to grid operator PJM, in Stoney Beach, Md. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Clean Energy Industry Questions a New PJM Proposal That Could Move Fossil Fuel Projects to the Front of the Interconnection Queue

By Aman Azhar

Cindy D. Taff, Chief Executive Officer of Sage Geosystems, explains how they use a well to store energy on March 22, 2023 in Starr County Santa Elena, Texas. The startup is testing storing energy in the ground. Credit: Gabriel Cárdenas/The Texas Tribune

How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries

By Dylan Baddour

Cheryl Shadden stands outside her home in Granbury, Texas, with a view of Constellation Energy's Wolf Hollow II power plant in the background. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid

By Keaton Peters

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