Coal-plant retirements create opportunities for gas generation in PJM footprint

摘要

The low cost of natural gas from the Appalachian Basin,along with planned retirements of a number of coal- and nuclear-firedgeneration plants within the PJM Interconnection regional transmissionorganization, is creating the opportunity for developers of gas-firedpower plants to get new projects built in the region, a speaker at theMarcellus Utica Houston conference said Thursday.“PJM is where most of the action has happened in last five years,”Raj Suri, president of project development company EmberClear, saidat the conference.