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Maryland Lawmakers File Letter of Support in OPC’s FERC Complaint Filed Against PJM
Complaint challenges PJM’s interconnection’s cost allocation for transmission lines that support data centers.
On June 16th the Maryland General Assembly file a letter in support of the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel complaint filed on May 7th at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) against PJM Interconnection, LLC.
OPC’s complaint centers on the transmission side of the equation. Specifically, OPC challenges PJM’s interconnection cost allocation for transmission lines that support data centers.
OPC requests, that the Commission: (1) establish a refund effective date pursuant to FPA, section 206 as of the date of this complaint; (2) find that PJM’s existing cost allocation rules for baseline transmission projects are unjust and unreasonable because they result in the imposition of costs on Maryland electric customers that are not commensurate with any benefits Maryland customers receive; and (3) establish just and reasonable cost allocation rules.
The Maryland Lawmakers state in their letter that “[w]hile PJM’s rules are unfair for many PJM states, they impact Maryland disproportionately simply because Maryland sits next to Data Center Alley in Virginia,” the Maryland lawmakers said in a Wednesday filing at FERC. “Given the projections of massive data center growth — more than 80,000 megawatts over the next 20 years — PJM is likely to bill Maryland customers billions more for future data center-driven transmission costs.”
FERC has extended the comment deadline on the complaint to July 27th.
