Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

State officials are launching a study to identify retired power plant sites that could potentially be reactivated.

The program is funded with a two-million-dollar federal grant awarded to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, according to reporting by our partners at the Pennsylvania Capital Star.

Nearly two dozen former power plant sites across Pennsylvania are being studied, including the former West Shore Power Plant in Lemoyne.

The goal is to narrow the list down to five to seven sites that could be quickly brought back into service, boosting the power grid.

A week before this, at an October 6th hearing in the Pennsylvania House, PJM's Stephen Bennett told lawmakers the grid has entered an era of managing scarcity.

The Pennsylvania PUC's consultant, Synapse, puts 2030 outage risk at nearly six times PJM's planning standard in its central scenario.

A four-day waiver doesn't prove much on its own, but this is what thin margins look like, and it's months before next summer.

FERC Commissioner Chang in a dissent posted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Democratic State Representative Nikki Rivera, she sponsored the bill.

According to a report released by Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission last month, Pennsylvania could face regular blackouts and brownouts as soon as 2030.

House Bill 2380 is part of the solution, and this bill requires electric utilities to procure and integrate battery storage into the grid.

My constituents tell me that their bills, including electric bills, are too high and that the system is not working and that the status quo is not attainable.

Pennsylvania PUC advances large load power curtailment plan.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is forging ahead with a proposal to ensure that data centers and other large load customers don't get special treatment during emergency power cutbacks.

Commentary: the bid to align energy permitting and the public interest.

A larger, more secure North American power grid has been an energy policy priority for grid experts for more than two decades, touched off by the stunning two thousand and three Northeast blackout, which streaked around the eastern Great Lakes, cutting off power to fifty million people.

Sure.

You know, looked at what I did is, you know, working at FERC and working at the Pennsylvania PUC, Pennsylvania PUC.

is a 500-person operation that touches over 6,000 utilities.

So I use the example.