Tell Governor Youngkin: PJM Needs Significant Reform to Keep Prices Down

For too long, PJM, the organization that manages energy transmission across several states in the East and Midwest, has failed to keep energy prices down and connect renewable energy sources to the grid. With energy demand from data centers and other large load users continuing to escalate, we need as much clean, renewable electricity brought online as possible to prevent prices from skyrocketing. Instead of acting with urgency, PJM has made little progress on connecting hundreds of solar, wind, and battery projects that have waited for years for approval to connect to the grid. In multiple cases, PJM’s solution to rising energy demand has been to fast-track dirty sources of energy that pollute our air and water, supercharge climate change, and put our future at risk.

Fill out the form on the right to send a message to Governor Glenn Youngkin asking him to call on PJM to get more clean energy online, and stop fast-tracking dirty, expensive fossil fuel projects.

Here in Virginia, PJM’s processes have played a significant role in the energy bill spikes we’ve seen in the past couple of years. Prime examples of PJM’s poor practices include:

Stalling the implementation of Virginia’s Clean Economy Act, a landmark law passed in 2020 that has attracted a great deal of clean energy investment in the Commonwealth
Putting millions of dollars of clean energy investment at risk by failing to get hundreds of renewable projects out of the interconnection queue and onto the grid
Fast-tracking dirty and volatile energy sources and prioritizing fossil fuels in its public messaging
Shunning transparency, making it difficult for lawmakers and governors to understand and plan for the clean energy future

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Fill out the form to the right to send a message to Governor Youngkin urging him to call on PJM to get more clean energy online and stop fast-tracking dirty, expensive fossil fuel projects.

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I am writing to urge you to call on PJM to bring more renewable energy online to help keep our electric bills under control. In recent years, PJM has failed to interconnect hundreds of solar, wind, and battery projects that are waiting to come online. They have failed to build the transmission infrastructure necessary to support large scale renewable energy projects. They have failed to keep prices down, and they have prioritized the interconnection of risky, dirty energy sources over proven renewables. We need as much clean, renewable electricity flowing to the grid as possible to keep prices from continuing to spike, particularly as we continue to see a proliferation of energy-hungry data centers in Virginia. PJM’s inability to interconnect cheap, abundant, and fast to deploy renewables throughout the region is the reason for high energy prices. I urge you to call on PJM to improve its processes for connecting renewable energy projects to the grid. We cannot continue to suffer from rising energy bills at the behest of fossil fuels and the unaddressed effects of the climate crisis. We need PJM to take meaningful action to address these issues. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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