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Summary:
NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Power Generation Keep PJM Alive
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GridStatus' website shows the PJM Interconnection under severe peak-demand stress as heat-driven cooling loads surge across the Mid-Atlantic and eastern U.S.
PJM load is near 158 GW, net load is around 142 GW, and real-time power prices are sharply rising to about $929/MWh.
The fuel-mix chart shows the grid is heavily reliant on natural gas and coal, which together account for about 64.2% of all power, with nuclear at 20.6%. In total, gas, coal, and nuclear account for about 84.8% of the power being generated, while solar and wind remain in the high single digits.
Peak power prices across PJM are expected at around 6 p.m. local time.
The grid is operating near record load and relying heavily on gas-fired generation to prevent rolling blackouts.
Do not let climate-crisis socialists pretend otherwise: policies that reduce dispatchable fossil-fuel power leave grids extremely fragile and prone to failure when demand spikes.
Meanwhile, President Trump and the Energy Department are moving to keep fossil-fuel power generation online to preserve grid stability.
Why Democrats pushed for a power grid increasingly dependent on unreliable wind and solar, while stripping away the stable baseload capacity needed during peak demand, is no longer just an energy-policy question; it is a national security question.