Archive for May 2024
Capacity Prices Rise on the Delmarva Peninsula
Capacity Prices Rise on the Delmarva Peninsula The PJM Interconnection is the power grid operator in the Mid-Atlantic, an area that covers 65 million people in all or part of 13 states and the District of Columbia. PJM is broken up into “control zones,” one of which is the DPL zone. The DPL zone…
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A Tale of Two Natural Gas Frequently, we are asked, “With natural gas prices so low, why aren’t electricity prices low?” You may remember that, in the Mid-Atlantic, natural gas is often the marginal fuel used to generate electricity and thus generally sets electricity prices in the wholesale market. Well, natural gas prices are low. …
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