" The nation's largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity
as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants."
"It's a challenge facing grid operators across the country as power generators mothball coal and natural gas-fired plants for various reasons,
such as reducing high maintenance and regulatory compliance costs or cutting greenhouse gas emissions."
"PJM Interconnection, which manages grid operations across 13 states and the District of Columbia, published new analysis Friday showing retirements
outpacing new additions in the coming years that could leave its service area short of thousands of megawatts of capacity by 2030."
"Retirements are at risk of outpacing the construction of new resources, due to a combination of industry forces,
including siting and supply chain, whose long-term impacts are not fully known," it said in its report."
" PJM said this shortfall is on track due to a "potential timing mismatch" between retirements, growing electricity demand, and the pace of new generation coming online."
Southern Companies has plenty of generating capacity for the SE, in large part because of Plant Vogle (sp?) coming on line. The reactors are not even fully powered up yet.
But Southern Companies does wheel power around the US grid. So they participate in this mess.