PJM Interconnection

Happy Thanksgiving from PJM Interconnection.

Just like the 65 million customers it serves, PJM has been planning for Thanksgiving, a day like no other when it comes to forecasting how much electricity will be needed and when. The holiday joins Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in getting its own special treatment by PJM load forecasters. Read more below.

PJM will be bringing its signature dish to your home this Thanksgiving, providing the power that makes turkey, stuffing and pies possible, and keeps the fridge running for days of leftovers. Read more at PJM Inside Lines. https://lnkd.in/e3Wy4xWa

PJM and its members are advancing several initiatives to streamline the interconnection of new resources onto the grid to maintain grid reliability in the near term. These initiatives are in addition to the already intensive efforts of PJM to streamline its interconnection queue and process more than 200,000 MW of new projects in the next three years. All of the initiatives work in combination to try and address PJM’s continued warnings about maintaining adequate resources on the grid amid generator retirements and growing electricity demand. Read more at PJM Inside Lines. https://lnkd.in/epAerYtd

In the spirit of the holiday, PJM staff members spent a special Thanksgiving lunch writing over 250 thank-you cards to the restoration workers who have been working tirelessly to provide aid and support in the wake of recent hurricanes. The cards will be mailed to these incredible individuals to show our gratitude and remind them how much their dedication means to the impacted communities and beyond. Watch Nora Swimm, Sr. Vice President – Corporate Client Services; Michael Coyle, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer; and Risa Holland, Sr. Data Analyst II – Data Confidentiality, discuss the event.

PJM reviewed three separate proposals it plans to file with FERC by the end of the year to address the urgent need for new generation while refining market rules to address specific stakeholder concerns before the next capacity auction. Read more below.

PJM’s Laura Walter, Sr. Lead Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics, presented to the CIGRE US National Committee 2024 Grid of the Future Symposium Nov. 13 on PJM’s insights into the organization’s exploration of artificial intelligence. Walter’s presentation highlighted a recent academic paper developed at PJM, which was also published by CIGRE. In addition to Walter, the paper’s authors were: - Angela Cabezas, Manager – Corporate Goals & Business Planning - Yang Chen, Sr. Business Solution Engineer II – Applied Innovation - Ed Kovler, Sr. Lead Business Solution Architect – Applied Innovation - Jim Gluck, Sr. Director – Enterprise Information Security - Mike Luna, Sr. Lead Business Solution Architect – Enterprise Architecture - Nikki Militello, Manager – Applied Innovation - Earl Lynch, Executive Director, Client Services The paper and presentation outlined several insights from PJM’s AI explorations, noting that while AI has enormous potential, that potential will not be realized overnight. The paper and presentation also highlighted different AI use cases, lessons learned and core needs that must be addressed to successfully deploy and sustain AI technology at PJM. Read the paper at https://lnkd.in/eD5qMpPz

PJM and Members Conduct Annual Winter Emergency Operations Drill https://lnkd.in/epSuz_8U

This week, Asim Z. Haque, PJM’s Sr. Vice President – Governmental & Member Services, attended the 2024 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference in Anaheim, CA and joined a panel discussion about the demand for artificial intelligence driving the need for large scale data centers, which require large amounts of power to operate continuously. The group discussed the significant electricity demand increases that come with data center proliferation and how that’s playing out across the country. Photo L-R: Gregory Poulos, Consumer Advocates of the PJM States, Inc.; Asim Haque, PJM Interconnection; Brian George, Google; the Honorable Kimberly Barrow, Esq., Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission; Vincent Duane, Copper Monarch LLC; Mason Emnett, Constellation.

PJM Announces Organization Changes https://lnkd.in/ewEDdYFy