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House subcommittee hears unified warning: ‘Less supply, more demand’ creates reliability risk
Summary
Regional grid operators told the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee that retiring dispatchable generation, record demand growth (driven by data centers and manufacturing), and interconnection/permitting delays together create a credible risk of power shortfalls without swift, coordinated action.
House Energy and Commerce subcommittee members and the leaders of the nation's regional grid operators on Friday framed the country's electricity system as facing a near‑term reliability challenge driven by retiring dispatchable power and rapidly rising demand.
The hearing began with Chairman Bob Latta's opening that the nation “is in the midst of a reliability crisis,” and was followed by a string of testimony from the regional operators that reinforced the point. “Less supply, more demand. It adds up to increased reliability risk and higher prices,” Manu Ashtana, president and CEO of PJM Interconnection LLC, told the panel.
Why it matters: Witnesses from PJM, ISO New England, MISO, NYISO, SPP, CAISO and ERCOT said…
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