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Regional grid monitors and PJM warn of growing reliability risks as generation retires and demand rises
Summary
Reliability First and PJM told a joint Delaware legislative hearing that retirements of baseload generators, rapid growth in demand (notably from data centers), and a slow pace of new-builds are elevating resource adequacy risk across PJM; speakers urged faster interconnection, diverse resource mixes and coordinated planning.
At a joint hearing of the Delaware Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee and the House Natural Resources & Energy Committee, regional grid monitor Reliability First and the regional transmission organization PJM said the electric system faces growing resource adequacy risks as traditional generators retire and new load grows rapidly.
Diane Holder, vice president of entity engagement and corporate services at Reliability First, told legislators that “our lens is reliability, pure and simple,” and said the organization’s audits focus on operations, staffing, winterization plans and cyber/physical security for entities that interact with the bulk-power system. Holder flagged a recent NERC long‑term reliability assessment showing more than half the continent at high or elevated risk of shortfalls over the next 10 years and said PJM now sits at an elevated risk level after previously being judged low risk.
Why it matters: Holder said the system is losing conventional,…
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