Grid Operator Seeks to Keep Coal Plant Open Despite Settlement (1)

The largest regional electric grid operator in the US pressed an environmental group and energy company to amend an agreement requiring a Maryland power plant to stop burning coal beyond 2025.

The planned closure of the 1,282-megawatt Brandon Shores Generating Station could result in reliability issues for more than one million consumers in the state, including the entire city of Baltimore, PJM Interconnection wrote in a letter to the Sierra Club this week.

The Brandon Shores retirement would result in more than 600 reliability violations that require transmission solutions to correct, PJM said, but those fixes won’t be complete until ...