The Grid That Democrats Built

Democrats Spent Decades Wrecking the Power Grid and Now 67 Million Americans Are About to Pay for It

PJM Interconnection just dropped a report called "Powering Reliability Through Market Design." The title sounds like a policy seminar. The contents read like a warning flare.

The grid is running short on power, and PJM is proposing what it calls "differential reliability" – a plan to ration electricity by cutting off data centers and large new businesses first while residential customers keep the lights on.

The math behind the crisis is damning. Construction timelines for new power plants have doubled. A natural gas turbine now takes at least four years from approval to operation, and environmental reviews routinely drag on longer than that.

The moment PJM reopened its interconnection queue after a years-long backlog, over 800 applications flooded in totaling 220 gigawatts of potential capacity.

The supply exists. Democrats spent decades making sure it couldn't be built.

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PJM Interconnection is a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity for 67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia. As the largest power grid in North America, it operates competitive electricity markets, ensures reliability, and manages over 88,000 miles of transmission lines.