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15.07.26 - 00:57
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Largest US Power Grid Is 6.8 Gigawatts Short To Ensure Reliability On Historic Data Center Boom (ZeroHedge)
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Largest US Power Grid Is 6.8 Gigawatts Short To Ensure Reliability On Historic Data Center Boom
The largest US power grid failed for a third straight year to secure enough future supply commitments to ensure reliability for the future amid a historic boom in data center demand.
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid (Regional Transmission Organization), which serves 67 million customers in 13 states and Washington, DC, said its auction to procure power for the year starting June 2028 fell 6.8 gigawatts short of what it will need to guarantee system reliability during demand spikes, in a statement released Tuesday. The shortfall is equivalent to almost seven traditional nuclear reactors.
The result ramps up pressure on a grid that's home to Virginia's Data Center Alley, the biggest concentration of data centers in the US, and has borne the brunt of criticism for the struggle to manage the AI boom and sufficiently protect customers from soaring costs. Attention now shifts to an emergen...
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14.07.26 - 06:03
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RWE erwartet stabile Strompreise für Haushalte (DPA-AFX)
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BERLIN/ESSEN (dpa-AFX) - Deutschlands größter Stromerzeuger RWE geht für die kommenden fünf Jahre von insgesamt eher stabilen Preisen für Haushaltskunden aus. RWE-Chef Markus Krebber erwartet nach eigenen Angaben nicht, ......
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13.07.26 - 22:18
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Lawyers to investigate claims of GB power grid cover-up over blackout risk (The Guardian)
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Operator brings in independent legal firm to look into whistleblower allegations relating to June heatwaveGreat Britain's grid operator has brought in independent investigators to look into accusations that its staff were involved in a cover-up over the power system being at a greater risk of blackouts during the heatwave.The government-owned energy system operator will face the scrutiny of an external legal firm after a whistleblower claimed that control room staff were warned against leaving a paper trail relating to efforts to stabilise the power system during record high temperatures in late June. Continue reading......
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12.07.26 - 16:42
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Britain′s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears (The Guardian)
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Timing of Devon switchoff 'could not be worse', says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue Britain's biggest community solar project has been forced to shut for the duration of its first summer by the government's energy system operator to avoid overloading the local grid with renewable energy.The north Devon solar farm was ordered to shut weeks before record high temperatures across Europe led to power supply warnings, due to concerns that the large amount of rooftop solar in the area could destabilise the power grid by triggering a “thermal overload”. Continue reading......
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12.07.26 - 01:24
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The Real Grid Crisis Is A State Policy Problem Dressed Up As A Market Failure (ZeroHedge)
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The Real Grid Crisis Is A State Policy Problem Dressed Up As A Market Failure
Authored by Todd Snitchler via RealClearEnergy,
There's a critique of PJM making the rounds: PJM - the largest grid operator in the United States - is too big. There are too many state interests at play, and PJM doesn't have the ability to function cohesively or quickly enough. FERC even scheduled a governance technical conference this month to examine whether PJM's stakeholder structure can move fast enough to respond to demand. The reality is that policy disagreements at the state level are dressed up as a procedural defect with the grid, opening the way for critics to point their reforms at the wrong target.
Disagreements at the state level are just what you'd expect, pitting those that generate enough power to export against those that depend on imports. Pennsylvania is PJM's energy workhorse, shipping out roughly a quarter of everything it generates. Illinois, West Virginia, and Michigan also produce more t...
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11.07.26 - 04:12
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The Day The Grid Failed: The Seventeen Minutes That Exposed The Fragile Foundations Of Modern Civilization (ZeroHedge)
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The Day The Grid Failed: The Seventeen Minutes That Exposed The Fragile Foundations Of Modern Civilization
Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup,
This is a fictionalized scenario exploring a hypothetical grid collapse.
By the time the first official statement reached the public, the statement itself no longer mattered. Television networks were already off the air across much of the continent, mobile networks had fragmented into isolated pockets, and the internet - once assumed to be nearly indestructible - had become a collection of disconnected islands separated by an invisible wall of silence. Rumors traveled farther than verified information, speculation outran evidence, and for the first time in generations millions of people discovered how completely their understanding of the world depended on a stream of data they had always taken for granted. Historians would later argue over the precise moment the crisis began, but among engineers and emergency planners there was remarkably little di...
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