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PJM: FirstEnergy can shut 4 GW of fossil plants without harming reliability

Utility Dive: While the loss of 4 GW is significant, PJM's grid serves 65 million customers across more than a dozen states, and the long lead-time of the shutdowns means plenty of opportunities to address discrete issues. But PJM is also examining the potential for long-term impacts, and said it would consider the coal and diesel shutdowns in the context of that report as well.

PJM is focused on the long-term resilience of the grid, and is "analyzing the grid's ability to manage extended outages associated with potential fuel disruptions and to establish, to the extent necessary, criteria by which the value of fuel security can be incorporated into the PJM markets."

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