As PJM struggles to incentivize new generation in the face of rising demand, the capacity market is breaking and driving politically untenable affordability challenges. Bowing to political pressure, the market is pursuing alternative structures to support new entry, starting with a backstop reliability auction, continuing through a new curtailable large load process,  and simultaneously exploring options for more holistic market reform. This webinar will discuss the reasoning behind, complications from, and implications of these proposals as well as the impacts they have on load-serving entities, data center load growth, current generators, and the prospective queue of resources waiting for clear economic signals.

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