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Explaining the Grid

Matt Estes

A newsletter about the electric grid, how it works, and how it is changing that is based on what is and not what we might want it to be

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Latest Issues

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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE GOVERNORS OF THE PJM STATES HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE TO ADDRESS PJM'S CAPACITY DEFICIT. WILL IT WORK?

Since my last post, my wife and I went on a cruise off the Norwegian coast up above the Arctic Circle. The name of the cruise was “In search of Northern Lights,” and boy did we find them! We saw lights every night (and up there, night start...

12 days ago
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PJM FAILED TO ACQUIRE THE CAPACITY IT NEEDS TO ENSURE RELIABILITY. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

This past year, something happened that has never happened before. Well, actually many things happened last year that had never happened before. But I am talking about an important unprecedented event on the grid. Specifically, the capacity...

a month ago
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WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NERC'S NEW WINTER RELIABILITY ASSESSEMENT?

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is the entity tasked by Congress with ensuring the reliability of the grid. NERC’s summer reliability assessment, issued last May, showed that four large regions, covering all or pa...

2 months ago
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HOW DOES THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF AI'S ELECTRIC DEMAND AFFECT THE PRICE OF ELECTRICITY?

Those of you who have subscribed to or follow Explaining the Grid for at least the last few months know I have written several articles about how the explosive growth in the demand for electricity to serve AI has affected the grid. Up to no...

3 months ago
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  • Matt Estes

    I practiced energy law for almost 40 years before retiring in 2023. From 1984-2017 in private practice, and 2018-2023 at FERC, where I was Senior Legal Adviser to Commissioner Danly and then in the Solicitor's Office

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