Grid Status

On Tuesday, PJM's system could face one of its highest stress moments of the year, as system-wide capacity saturation is forecast to exceed 170 GW Forecast demand is well below summer highs, but demand alone is not enough to assess overall risk amidst ~60 GW of shoulder season outages 🔌💡

Some recent notes from the team: nuclear refueling season is coming up www.gridstatus.io/insights/522... 🔌💡

NYISO's ties that bind www.gridstatus.io/insights/515...

Some recent notes from the team: nuclear refueling season is coming up www.gridstatus.io/insights/522... 🔌💡

Couple of recent renewables observations First, MISO has come from behind to soundly take the lead on peak solar output from PJM. These are the two largest markets in North America, and interesting test cases given quite different geographic attributes compared to early movers CAISO and ERCOT 🔌💡

Second, curtailment in CAISO absolutely exploded in April, shattering monthly records for both solar and wind

Couple of new blogs in the last few weeks, First, Hype or Hyperscale, on a handful of the largest data center projects, how they're proceeding, where they fit into their markets, are clean promises real? and more! blog.gridstatus.io/hype-or-hype... #energysky 1/5

and you can also track everything we're writing about this under the SPP West tag on Grid Status Insights first day-ahead results next Tuesday, real-time live on Wednesday WEIS, the SPP-administered real-time balancing market will go away www.gridstatus.io/insights/top... 4/5

Couple of new blogs in the last few weeks, First, Hype or Hyperscale, on a handful of the largest data center projects, how they're proceeding, where they fit into their markets, are clean promises real? and more! blog.gridstatus.io/hype-or-hype... #energysky 1/5

This week, it was Diamonds or Dust, Coal Under Pressure on the extensions, retirements, little bit of history and global happenings with coal also, sulfur emissions, which spiked in 2025 blog.gridstatus.io/coal-arreste... 2/5

New blog on RTC+B actuals since we're into the 60-day data from ERCOT 🔌💡 blog.gridstatus.io/rtc-b-60-day...

Winter weather is here for a huge swath of the US, and power market impacts are likely 🔌💡 We've made two winter hazards and grid condition dashboards publicly available to anyone with a free account Outlook: www.gridstatus.io/dashboards/c... Ops: www.gridstatus.io/dashboards/d...

PJM’s long-term load forecast saw values rise once again in 2026, but the new forecast is outpaced by 2025’s until the 2030s in both the summer and winter 🔌💡 insidelines.pjm.com/pjms-updated...

COMED, home to a high share of wind and nuclear power, has seen a rapid increase in expected load growth by the end of the decade. In Dayton Power & Light, a combination of new data center load is expected to spike load levels in 2030.

With winter in full swing, households across the country have dialed their thermostats up, but the fuels and technologies keeping homes warm vary widely by region. This is mostly driven by climate, historical prices, and year of industrialization/electrification 🔌💡

Similar to nearby New England, NYISO’s heating is dominated by oil and natural gas . While pipeline limitations are not as big of a concern as in ISO-NE, extended cold snaps and high demand in zones J and K can drive up spot pricing.

With winter in full swing, households across the country have dialed their thermostats up, but the fuels and technologies keeping homes warm vary widely by region. This is mostly driven by climate, historical prices, and year of industrialization/electrification 🔌💡

New England and New York have new ties with Québec coming online over the next 6 months, but is the power there to support them? 🔌💡 Earlier this year we noticed that flows into the US, and particularly New York, had dropped off, years before the threat of tariffs blog.gridstatus.io/more-hqs-tha...