Grid Operator Sounds Alarm Over Power Plant Shutdown That Could Impact Millions

Published on November 22, 2023

A large U.S. grid operator warned Wednesday that the pending shutdown of a coal power plant in Maryland may imperil electricity supplies for millions of Americans. Talen Energy in April told PJM Interconnection, a grid operator in 13 states, earlier this year that it will shut down its 1,280-megawatt plant in Brandon Shores, near Baltimore, in June 2025. In 2020, Talen Energy said that it came to an agreement with the Sierra Club environmentalist to cease “coal-fired operations” by that time at the plant along with two others. But a PJM spokesman said Wednesday that the shuttering of the Brandon Shores plant would cause a grid imbalance. It noted that upgrades in Maryland aren’t expected to be finished until 2028, three years after the plant is closed down....

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