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Electric utilities tell committee: interconnection backlogs, transformer lead times and transparency gaps worsen rate and reliability risks
Summary
Executives from PSE&G, Atlantic City Electric and JCP&L/FirstEnergy told lawmakers that utility interconnection queues and long lead times for substation transformers are constraining the state’s ability to deliver power to new data centers and other large customers and urged coordinated state action and clearer cost allocation.
Senior officials from New Jersey utilities told the Senate committee that the state faces two intertwined problems: (1) wholesale capacity shortages signaled in PJM’s auctions and (2) distribution‑level constraints—aging substations, transformer lead times and interconnection queues—that limit how quickly new load can be served.
Joe Accardo, senior vice president for state regulatory affairs at Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G), said PSE&G’s interconnection queue for data centers rose from about 400 MW 12 months earlier to about 4,700 MW, a tenfold increase; he…
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