CFACT Ed By Gordon Tomb February 4th, 2022 Energy 5 Comments
Once upon a time the job of the PJM Interconnection — operator of the nation’s largest electricity grid — was reasonably straightforward: Keep the lights on. The organization’s mission statement still identifies PJM’s “primary task” as ensuring the power grid’s “safety, reliability and security.”
However, today’s PJM is post-modern. Focused management of transmitting electricity is muddled by notions of carbon dioxide as a toxin and sophomoric visions of pristine energy from the zephyrs and sun. Influenced by woke climate goals, Valley Forge-based PJM says one of its “strategic pillars” is now “facilitating decarbonization.”
Facilitating decarbonization? That means “we are committed to facilitating the state and federal policies that are driving decarbonization,” explains PJM spokesman Jeff Shields.
“PJM is not a policy maker, and we are fuel and technology neutral,”
he said. “At the same time, we serve 13 states and the District of
Columbia, and 11 of those states and D.C. have some” renewable or clean
energy program. “We have…stressed that any energy transition brought on
by state or federal policies has to maintain reliability and do it
cost-effectively.”..........To Read More.....
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