Dear Northeast Ohio Sierra Club Members and Supporters,
| Dirty fossil fuels are trying to skip the line! Our communities want clean wind and solar projects to power our homes and businesses. Hundreds of renewable energy projects have been waiting years for PJM (the organization that manages your regional energy grid) to connect them to the grid. But rather than approve them, PJM is proposing to let 50 projects skip the line – and has made clear it intends to pick gas and nuclear projects to do so! Send a message to decision makers in your state and demand they help get clean wind and solar projects connected to the grid first.
PJM has filed a proposed tariff change with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that would put consumers at risk of higher utility bills and prolonged public health issues associated with fossil fuels. It is urgent that we call on FERC to reject this dangerous plan. Known as the “Resource Reliability Initiative,” PJM’s proposal seeks to fast-track the approval process for dirty gas plants while further delaying the interconnection of wind and solar projects that have been waiting to come online for years. PJM claims this is needed to meet future energy demand, but projects are not even required to be online by 2031 to be eligible to skip the line. Instead of doing its job to figure out how to interconnect renewable resources to the grid, PJM is standing in the way of state decarbonization goals and changing the rules to benefit risky gas power plants. We are ready for clean power, and we don’t need any more dirty gas plants in our communities. FERC must reject the Reliability Resource Initiative filing and call on PJM to prioritize renewable energy projects instead. Send a message to decision makers now. Sincerely, Ericka Copeland |