Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters,
We wanted to share the Coalition Letter to Virginia’s DEQ for two reasons:
** We wanted to remind you to send in a few brief comments expressing your concerns to DEQ. Their main job, as a science-based non-partisan government agency — their “only” job — is to ensure residents of the Commonwealth have clean air and clean water. Enter your comments to DEQ before the Dec. 3 deadline **
And to be perfectly blunt, we are sick and tired of elected leaders at every level of government not holding themselves, or the data center industry, accountable. And elected officials’ refusal to advocate for us and foisting implementation of meaningful oversight onto other non-elected bodies to provide cover for their bad decisions and the damaging outcomes we are experiencing.
So — in that spirit of accountability and ‘where the buck really stops,’ we are requesting OUR local Board of Supervisors, on the behalf of Prince William residents, request a delay on the proposed DEQ guidance and ALSO an in-person public meeting/hearing with affected communities BEFORE DEQ adopts any new policy for on-site generation during ‘Planned Outages.’
Use this easy-to-send email to let our Board of Supervisors know you want a public DEQ meeting BEFORE ANY policy decisions.
“With no consensus among stakeholders, PJM Interconnection’s 10-member board now must craft a policy for surging data-center demand that has already driven up electricity prices for millions.”
“During the meeting, PJM members—hundreds of representatives, most from the energy industry—reviewed a final slate of a dozen proposals and cast advisory votes on each of them. The options ranged from requiring or nudging data centers to bring their own generation, to creating a new fast track for connecting energy projects to the grid, to temporarily halting new data-center hookups altogether until PJM can reliably serve them.”
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor | Utility Dive
“…PJM is considering proposing to allow data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers, Monitoring Analytics, the grid operator’s market monitor, said.”
“That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM to maintain a reliable grid and is therefore not just and reasonable,” Monitoring Analytics said.”