PJM Warns Power Emergencies in Mild Weather Are Becoming the New Normal

The striking part is the shift in baseline, not the emergency itself: PJM is describing supply strain as a year-round condition rather than a summer-peak or winter-storm problem. That reframes data-center demand growth as a grid-planning constraint affecting every large-load customer and generator on the system, not just the operators. Whether the spring-and-fall outage pattern keeps colliding with load growth — and how PJM prices or procures around it — is the open question.