$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake and PJM wants to do it again
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Robert Boswall
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Robert Boswall
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Why it matters
Power in America's largest electricity market is procured off a model that understates existing supply by roughly 4GW, inflating capacity costs and squeezing the grid headroom datacenter expansion depends on.
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