{"id":233955,"date":"2026-07-02T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233955\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:02:07","slug":"philadelphia-heat-wave-electricity-use-could-hit-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233955\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia heat wave: Electricity use could hit record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glatz said she does not expect the heat wave to cause blackouts in the PJM region, which serves 65 million people across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and part or all of Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

While random disruptions such as a thunderstorm knocking down a power line could present additional challenges, the grid is designed with contingencies in place to absorb a certain number of generator and transmission outages, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all these factors built in already to protect against unexpected issues,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s enough margin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late last year, an auction PJM uses to secure commitments from power plants so that electricity supply meets future demand failed to reach the grid operator\u2019s goal<\/a> for a buffer of excess supply, raising the risk of power outages starting next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glatz said she does not expect the heat wave to cause blackouts in the PJM region, which serves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3070,74472,69,71,70,5205,5206],"class_list":["post-233955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-electric-grid","tag-extreme-heat","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pjm-interconnection","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}