More than a decade ago, Texas lawmakers set the state’s power market free. Longstanding rules limiting who sold electricity to whom — and how much they charged for it — were cast aside so private companies could chase customers, competing for business in a free-market bonanza that would supposedly push down prices for consumers across the state.
So did it work?
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Pace of retiring power generation to meet CPP could strain transmission system: PJM
The pace at which generation retires to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan could put greater strain on the PJM Interconnection transmission system, the grid operator said in a white paper issued Friday.
The grid operator studied seven scenarios based on three levels of generation at risk of retirement under CPP — 6 GW, 16 GW and 32 GW — to determine the range of possible transmission needs.
“Under certain conditions and implementation scenarios and depending on the time of the many moving parts, new transmission and/or transmission improvements might not be completed in time to …