Consumers for a Better Grid

Stay in the know on PJM! Visit our refreshed campaign pages for the latest news from Consumers for a Better Grid:?www.forabettergrid.org

CUB's Clara Summers recently spoke in favor of a Maryland bill (HB121) that would require utilities to make public their votes at PJM. Votes at PJM are often secret--even though they have a huge impact on our power bills. Watch Clara at 33:32: https://buff.ly/4hwhFuy

Big thanks to the Office of the Governor- Illinois and Illinois Commerce Commission for fighting the good fight for consumers and calling for the lowering of PJM's capacity auction price cap to better protect customers from high power bills.?Read more in Utility Dive: https://lnkd.in/gWbm4Qwf

Happy new year! As we jump into 2025, it’s good to reflect on all we’ve accomplished in 2024 and chart a course for what remains to be done. We've been working diligently on behalf of consumers at the power-grid operator PJM Interconnection and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). A few highlights from last year …https://lnkd.in/eQSatqVx

We are thrilled that FERC said NO to PJM's proposal to give even more power to transmission companies. Here's our statement: "We commend the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for rejecting this anti-consumer proposal by PJM and the Transmission Owners, which would have given large corporations with a profit motive far too much power and secrecy in transmission planning....We’re glad FERC saw through PJM and the Transmission Owners’ power grab." Read more of our statement here:? https://lnkd.in/gTWH868D And read the story here in Utility Dive: https://lnkd.in/grd2swrC

Consumers for a Better Grid was one of six ratepayer advocates who filed a complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking changes to the PJM Interconnection’s capacity market design this?Monday. “PJM acts as if load increases, supply decreases, and slow entry of new resources are facts of nature when, in fact, PJM has or should have tools to manage all three without sending prices to the roof,” the ratepayer advocates from the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio said in the complaint. Read more in?Utility Dive: https://lnkd.in/gPYD7V-F? #ConsumerAdvocacy #EnergyReform #PJMInterconnection?

Citizens Utility Board (Illinois) Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz recently spoke on a panel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to discuss co-located load and remind policymakers/regulators about the importance of strong, pro-consumer energy policy: "The decisions we make impact vulnerable ratepayers who are already suffering."

CUB's Clara Summers was happy to speak up for consumer interests on this panel!

Yesterday in E&E News: “All signs indicate that if the December auction were to go forward as scheduled, ratepayers would pay astronomic prices for no benefit,” Clara Summers, who manages the Consumers for a Better Grid Campaign for the Citizens Utility Board of Illinois, said in an email. “We want to get back on schedule as soon as possible, but the market rules need to make sense first. PJM needs to fast-track reforms so price signals can reconnect with reality.” https://lnkd.in/exuRyZ9P

Clara Summers, our Campaign Manager, has been in Washington, DC, this week to meet with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Commissioners as part of the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States. Just another day working for clean affordable energy!