Carlos, I’ve spent my career straddling the control room and the commission docket, so I see both the physics and the policy. Right now, PJM is in a moment where data center demand and aging thermal fleets are colliding, and record-high capacity prices landed even as the region missed its
Ava Baineson sits down with Christopher Hailstone, a seasoned utilities expert whose career spans grid reliability, renewable integration, and the delicate choreography of moving sensitive energy data through secure systems. Hailstone has been hands-on with EPRI’s push toward local AI—running
Families feeling squeezed by relentless bill spikes are forcing regulators to rewrite the playbook on what utilities can spend, recover, and promise, and the resulting rules are starting to change how capital gets approved, how markets are used, and how savings show up on the bill. Affordability,
Adapting to the New Reality of Midcontinent Power Needs The silent hum of electrical substations across the American heartland is growing into a roar as the digital economy demands a scale of energy unseen since the height of the industrial revolution. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator,
The sheer magnitude of the impending electricity gap across the Eastern United States has transformed the PJM Interconnection from a quiet grid overseer into a central protagonist in a high-stakes economic drama. As the steward of the largest power grid in the country, PJM currently faces a
The long-standing architectural paradigm of centralized power generation is rapidly dissolving as distribution-connected energy storage emerges as a surgical tool for grid stabilization. This transition is not merely a technical upgrade but a fundamental shift in how electricity is managed within
