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‘Potentially Catastrophic’: Grid Operator Sounds Alarm As Shutdown Of Major Coal Plant Looms

by Thomas Catenacci
November 22, 2023, 1:26 PM
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brandon shores coal plantA power grid operator that serves millions of Americans across the mid-Atlantic is warning that a planned coal-fired power plant shutdown will severely threaten electricity supplies and occur before new power sources come online.

PJM Interconnection — which coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, serving 65 million consumers — said the forthcoming shutdown of Brandon Shores coal power plant [pictured] located outside of Baltimore will disrupt the reliability of the region’s grid. [emphasis, links added]

The plant’s operator, Texas-based Talen Energy, intends to deactivate the plant in June 2025 as part of a settlement with the left-wing eco-group Sierra Club.

“There has been a strong push for quite some time to get coal power out of Maryland,” Christopher Summers, the founder and president of the Maryland Public Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“In this accelerated timeline of exiting from coal-fired power plants in the coming 12 to 24 months, I think it’s going to create a major reliability concern for the state.”

“The loss of power poses a real danger to the well-being and livelihoods of Maryland families and businesses,” Summers said. “Until these current risks to our grid are fully dealt with, it’s a mistake to close reliable, baseload power plants too soon. That should be a concern to consumers in Maryland and businesses in Maryland that rely on dependable power.”

In 2020, Talen Energy announced it had reached an agreement with Sierra Club to shutter Brandon Shores and two other major coal power plants in the region.

The decision was made in exchange for an agreement from the Sierra Club that aims to avoid future litigation or permit disputes related to coal at Talen Energy’s “transitioning sites.”

Ralph Alexander, the then-CEO of Talen Energy, said at the time that his company’s move was part of its transition to green energy and its broader environmental, social, and governance (ESG)- focused future.

According to the company’s current ESG commitments, it plans to entirely eliminate the use of coal in its wholly-owned generation facilities like Brandon Shores, which generate more than 5,000 megawatts of power nationwide.

However, according to PJM Interconnection, prematurely shutting down Brandon Shores — which has a capacity of 1,295 megawatts, enough to power more than a million homes — would spark an imbalance in the grid.

Shuttering such a vital power source requires the regional grid operator to divert electricity generated elsewhere, but transmission upgrades in Maryland aren’t expected to be finished until 2028, three years after the planned Brandon Shores closure.

“The PJM region and the state of Maryland are facing future reliability challenges as a result of the announced retirement of the Brandon Shores units,” Jeff Shields, a spokesperson for PJM Interconnection, told Fox News Digital.

“Specifically, PJM analyses showed that the deactivation of the Brandon Shores units would cause severe voltage drop and thermal violations across seven PJM zones, which could lead to widespread reliability risks in Baltimore and the immediate surrounding areas.”

“Therefore, there is an urgent need to upgrade the transmission system in order to maintain reliability and the flow of power to the 65 million people we serve,” Shields said. “The chosen transmission solutions include in-service estimates in the 2027-2028 timeframe.”

Because of the tight timeframe, PJM has requested that Brandon Shores remain in operation through 2028 under a so-called Reliability Must-Run Agreement until transmission upgrades are completed.

However, Shields noted Talen Energy’s agreement with Sierra Club prevents such an agreement from moving forward.

Additionally, while Talen Energy previously said it would convert Brandon Shores to rely on another, less emitting fuel source, it ultimately abandoned that plan and opted to completely close the facility, potentially increasing future reliability concerns. …

Earlier this month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) intervened and green-lit PJM’s nearly $800 million emergency plan for transmission upgrades to blunt the Brandon Shores closure.

FERC Commissioner Mark Christie said on Nov. 8 that, without proper upgrades, the shutdown could cause “severe voltage collapse in Baltimore and the surrounding zones, including Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, Delaware, and southeastern Pennsylvania,” adding such a scenario would be “potentially catastrophic.”

“Closing an efficient, low-cost energy producing plant like Brandon Shores is just one more way America is surrendering our energy advantage to China and Russia,” Rep. Andy Harris, the sole Republican member of Maryland’s congressional delegation, told Fox News Digital in a statement.

“It is foolish to think that anything will come of this short-sighted energy policy, cooked up by the out-of-touch liberals who run Maryland, other than even more expensive electricity bills for hard-working, over-taxed Maryland families,” he said.

Maryland has pursued some of the nation’s most aggressive clean energy goals. As part of that agenda, the state last year enacted the Climate Solutions Now Act that requires Maryland to achieve a state-level “net zero” greenhouse emissions mandate by 2045.

Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, who entered office in January, has called for the state’s power grid to be entirely powered by green energy by 2035 through reducing energy consumption and “supercharging investments” in wind and solar developments.

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Comments 6

  1. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    Lights Out for the United Nations(Useless Nations) and Washington D.C.(District of Crooks)shut of their power lets see them cope with that

  2. Dale Horst says:
    2 years ago

    GenExhaust.com sells exhaust kits for your generator so you can run it in your garage and put the hose under the door or through the wall.
    Yeah, you might need that.

    • David Lewis says:
      2 years ago

      If a generator is run in a building with occupants, such as in the garage of house, then a carbon monoxide detector should be used in the occupied area. There are many things that can go wrong with the extended exhaust. The biggest risk is the lack of skill of those installing it.

  3. Liardet Guy says:
    2 years ago

    Oh please please let it collapse! Particularly on a freezing night.

  4. David Lewis says:
    2 years ago

    This article is good news. In the US reliable power has been with us for our entire life times. System failures from action on climate change have included other events such as the severe cold in the Texas power outage. This causing many to think that the lights will always stay on no matter how much generating capacity is shut down. We need a good demonstration to the elite idealists that continuing to reduce generating capacity will result in power system failures. We need a catastrophic failure of the power grid, followed by another, and then another. It will be really sweet if the failure included the District of Columbia. This will show the starry eyed liberals just how stupid their agenda is.

    • Steve Bunten says:
      2 years ago

      David, I agree except the government with 100% support of the media will blame it on everything but their idiotic policies. And too many citizens will believe their utter lies.

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