Electric Power Supply Association

10/31/2025

🎃 When states leave competitive power markets, it’s no treat — just higher bills and haunted choices for consumers.

When states abandon competitive power markets like PJM, it might sound like they’re gaining “local control.” But the real result? Higher bills, fewer choices, and slower progress.

💀 In PJM, competition keeps generation costs steady and rewards companies that build efficiently. But when states try to go it alone or switch to other alternatives, the costs can be as much as 1,500% higher than PJM’s market rate — and those costs are passed straight to customers.

⚡ Across the region, energy experts and regulators are working to strengthen markets and speed up permitting so new, reliable power can be built where it’s actually needed — not through costly mandates or one-size-fits-all rules.

🏗️ Competition brings discipline: private investors, not customers, take the financial risk of building new power plants. That keeps the lights on and the bills manageable — even as demand grows from data centers, AI, and electrification.

Let markets work — and keep competition alive.

10/31/2025

👻 The Case of the Phantom Load: One utility recently cut its forecast for data center power demand in half — from 30 gigawatts to 13 gigawatts — after asking companies to prove their projects were real.

💨 Many of those “future” data centers vanished like ghosts — they looked big on paper, but weren’t actually being built.

💀 Why it matters: When forecasts are inflated, utilities can overbuild power plants and transmission lines — leaving customers haunted by higher costs for decades.

⚡ Here’s the treat: Across the country, energy experts are improving how we forecast electricity demand — making sure planning is based on real data, not hype. More accurate forecasts help keep the grid reliable and prevent waste.

🏗️ And in competitive power markets, private companies, not customers, take the financial risk of new projects. That keeps prices fair and investments focused where they’re truly needed.

Smart planning + healthy competition = reliable, affordable power for everyone — without scary surprises.

Learn more at epsa.org

10/30/2025

⚡ What Happens If States Leave PJM?

Some states are talking about leaving PJM, the regional power market that helps keep the lights on for 65+ million people across 13 states and D.C.

They say it could lower costs — but the facts tell a different story. 👇

💡 What PJM Does
PJM brings competition to power supply. That means independent companies—not ratepayers—invest their own money to build generation.
Competition helps discipline prices, keep reliability strong, and innovation moving.

🔹 What’s Being Proposed:
Alternatives to PJM could look like the Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR)—where utilities opt out of the market—or returning to a Vertically Integrated Utility (VIU) model with monopoly control over generation, transmission, and distribution.

🔹 The Risk:
Both models would mean higher costs, less transparency, and slower innovation.
- In 2024/2025, one FRR utility’s capacity rate was $464/MW-day, compared to PJM’s $28.92/MW-day — over 1,500% higher.
- And in South Carolina, a failed $25 billion monopoly nuclear project left ratepayers footing the bill for power that never came online.

🔹 The Real Challenge:
It’s not PJM—it’s the permitting delays and policy barriers that slow new generation from being built. Strengthening markets and addressing those roadblocks is the best path to reliable, affordable power.

📖 Read EPSA’s latest blog:
👉 What Happens If States Leave PJM?:

As some states weigh leaving PJM, EPSA explains why competitive power markets deliver lower costs, stronger reliability, and more innovation than monopoly systems—and how policymakers can strengthen, not replace, them.

09/25/2025

🔦What’s really behind your power bill? Cut through the noise - our “What’s in Your Electric Bill” guide breaks down energy prices, PJM markets, capacity costs, utility spending, and more.

Dive in: epsa.org/home/understanding-your-electric-bill/

07/04/2025

From all of us at EPSA and America’s competitive power suppliers, we are proud to power your celebrations and help keep the lights on and the grills hot this July 4th!

Wishing you a safe and joyful holiday! 🎆

07/02/2025

06/24/2025

🌞EPSA’s Summer 2025 Energy Outlook Is Here🌞

As summer heat sets in, the U.S. power grid is under growing pressure. PJM Interconnection has already issued a hot weather and maximum generation alert, while new analysis from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation shows some regions like the Midwest face an elevated risk of electricity shortages.

EPSA’s latest blog breaks it all down – from generation retirements and demand surges to the impact of federal and state policies on grid reliability and affordability.

Batteries are helping, and power generators are preparing. But we need sound policy and dispatchable resources to keep the lights on – this summer and beyond.

Read the full blog: https://epsa.org/summer-2025-outlook-rising-temperatures-tightening-power-supply/

05/26/2025

This Memorial Day, we pause to honor the brave individuals who gave everything in service to our country. Their sacrifice reminds us of the strength we gain when we stand together to build a future worthy of their courage and commitment.

05/23/2025

📈 Energy prices are rising. Power demand is surging. What’s driving it—and how do we keep up?

🎧 Catch up this weekend with EPSA's Energy Solutions podcast:
⚡ “Energy Rush” – What’s behind rising electricity demand and what are strategies to keep the grid reliable and cost-effective?
🔌 “Electrification Amps Up” – A deep dive with Debra Phillips, head America's electroindustry, electrical equipment and medical imaging manufacturers.
💡"Powering Pennsylvania" - PA PUC Chairman Stephen DeFrank talks data centers, consumer costs, and reliability

Start listening here: https://ow.ly/fl0B50VXomS

05/22/2025

: Data from 4 PJM territory states shows that generation costs make up roughly the same percentage on electric bills as it did 10 years ago. Dive deeper with Electric Power Supply Association latest report💡💵👇

https://epsa.org/study-finds-power-generation-costs-within-pjm-remain-flat-as-overall-utility-prices-increase/