The grid’s fastest-growing resource isn’t generation. It’s flexibility.

The technology is there. The institutions are not. FERC’s July 23 technical conference on the PJM Interconnection’s governance is where that gap gets addressed — or doesn’t, writes Jeanine Johnson, a former member of the grid operator’s board.

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Jeanine Johnson is a former member of the board of the PJM Interconnection and a co-founder of Immutaverse, a cybersecurity platform.

Jeanine Johnson is a former member of the board of the PJM Interconnection.

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The power industry is entering a period of extraordinary growth. Data centers are expanding. Electrification is accelerating. Utilities across the country are revising load forecasts upward faster than many planners expected just a few years ago.

The grid’s fastest-growing resource isn’t generation. It’s flexibility.

The grid’s fastest-growing resource isn’t generation. It’s flexibility.

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