Daybreak / PJM Interconnection
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Service profile
PJM Interconnection
market operatorITS FACTS ARE HELD HERE ONCE, NOT COPIED ONTO EACH PLACE
Its own record
| role | RTO for the whole state |
| capacity 2026 27 · price | 329.17 dollars per MW-day UCAP, cleared at the FERC approved cap |
| capacity 2026 27 · secured mw | 134311 |
| capacity 2026 27 · announced | 2025-07-22 |
| capacity 2026 27 · source | PJM Inside Lines |
| capacity 2027 28 · price | 333.44 dollars per MW-day UCAP, up 1.3 percent, again at the cap |
| capacity 2027 28 · secured mw | 134479 |
| capacity 2027 28 · shortfall | about 6625 MW below the reserve target |
| capacity 2027 28 · announced | 2025-12-17 |
| capacity 2027 28 · source | PJM Inside Lines; Utility Dive 2025-12-18 |
| prior 2025 26 | 269.92 dollars per MW-day |
| cap origin | Settlement of Governor Shapiro's late 2024 FERC complaint. PJM set a 325 dollar per MW-day cap in February 2025 for two auctions |
| interconnection · turnaround | One to two year study turnaround under the reformed process, no backlog remaining |
| interconnection · signed not built | About 46 GW as of mid 2025 |
| interconnection · cycle 1 | 811 projects and 220 GW applied, window closed 2026-04-27, announced 2026-04-29 |
| interconnection · transition cycle 1 | About 668 days, roughly 22 months, start to agreement |
| interconnection · demand growth | PJM projects more than 30 GW demand growth 2024 to 2030, about 30 GW of it from data centres |
Open proceedings
PA General Assembly
2025-2026 session · Final disposition of the data centre tax exemption repeal and Senate action on the Lightning Plan · open
PJM
2026 · Cycle 1 validation of 811 projects and 220 GW, window closed 2026-04-27 · ongoing
PPL and Blackstone joint venture
2026 · Possible certificate of public convenience and necessity filing for new generation · possible
FERC
2026-09-01 · Alternative Dispute Resolution forum commences · open
FERC and RTOs
2026-09-16 · Interested party comments, 30 days after the 17 August filings, non abeyance dockets · open
EPA
2026-10-30 · GHG Reporting Program reporting year 2025 report due, extended · open
PA electorate
2026-11 · Governor election, Shapiro against Garrity, with energy policy divergence over the Lightning Plan and PACER · upcoming
PECO and PA PUC
2026-12 · Next semi annual price to compare reset · upcoming
FERC and RTOs
2026-12-15 · Interested party comments, 30 days after the suspended filing deadline, abeyance dockets · open
PA PUC
2026-2027 · Decision on the PECO 429 million dollar distribution rate case filed 2026-03-30 · upcoming
EPA
2027-03-31 · GHG Reporting Program reporting year 2026 report due, standard deadline · open
IRS
2027-12-31 · Section 48E placed in service cut off for wind and solar where construction began after 2026-07-04 or 05 · open
Thresholds, against a 1.25 MW pod
| FERC ANOPR large load | 20 MW | 1.25 MW pod is under it |
| FERC show cause large load | 50 MW peak above 69 kV | 1.25 MW pod is under it |
| GHG reporting, Part 98 | 25 000 tonnes CO2e a year | not reached by a single pod |
| Title V major source | varies, 25 to 100 tons a year | not reached by a single pod |
A 1.25 MW pod clears none of these thresholds, which is the point: the pod is small enough to sit under the rules that are currently reshaping large load interconnection. Thresholds are read from rules, not from this service.
Where this profile is used
Philadelphia city
Capacity price and interconnection, inherited from the state
Lehigh Valley metro
Capacity price and interconnection, inherited from the state
Pennsylvania state
Capacity price, interconnection queue and study cycle for the whole state
Sources this profile is read from
CAISO queue XLSX
interconnection · joins to neither
EIA APIv2 JSON
curtailment · joins to neither
ENTSO-E Transparency Platform XML
curtailment and interconnection · joins to organisation
ERCOT GIS Report XLSX, ZIP
interconnection · joins to neither
MISO GI Queue XLSX, CSV
interconnection · joins to neither
MaStR SOAP SOAP XML
interconnection · joins to organisation
MaStR bulk XML in ZIP
interconnection · joins to organisation
NESO Data Portal, CKAN JSON, CSV
interconnection · joins to organisation
PJM Data Miner 2 JSON
interconnection · joins to neither
SPP GI Active CSV
interconnection · joins to neither