Green Energy Companies, Eco Activists Cry Foul Following Grid Operator’s Bid To Improve Energy Reliability
Owen Klinsky
Contributor
December 05, 2024
A group of renewable energy developers and environmental activists are pushing the largest U.S. grid operator to abandon its proposal to prevent energy shortfalls, according to a letter released Tuesday.
Hundreds of millions of Americans are at risk of experiencing power shortages this winter as data centers have helped drive a surge in electricity demand, with grid unreliability causing grid operator PJM to propose a fast-tracked process for 50 additional power plants to connect to the system. Now, a group of unnamed green energy producers are pushing the grid operator to abandon the effort, issuing a letter to PJM and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that suggests there isn’t a clear “emergency and reliability imperative” for boosting reliability and that the initiative wouldn’t hold up in court. (RELATED: Texas Is Booming On A Brittle Power Grid, Posing ‘Disastrous’ Risks For All Of America)
“The proposal is a blatant attempt to perpetrate undue discrimination and preference,” the letter states. “PJM management has acted as if there is an emergency and reliability imperative, but PJM has never defined ‘the need’ it must address.”
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/05/green-energy-companies-eco-activists-cry-foul-following-grid-operators-bid-to-improve-energy-reliability/
