{
  "id": 14475547,
  "title": "Power Prices Top $1,000 on PJM as Heat Collides With Fall Plant Maintenance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/power-prices-top-1-000-on-pjm-as-heat-collides-with-fall-plant",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-14T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Power-Prices-Top-1000-on-PJM-as-Heat-Collides-With-Fall-Plant-Maintenance.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Unseasonably high temperatures have coincided with PJM Interconnection's fall maintenance period, straining the 67 million-person-serving grid. A maximum generation alert was issued on Tuesday, with roughly 62,000 megawatts of capacity offline for planned work. Spot power at PJM's Western hub reached $1,021 per megawatt-hour, more than double the day-ahead average. Wednesday's day-ahead prices jumped 28% to $295.83 per megawatt-hour, the highest since mid-July. Demand for Tuesday was forecast at 112,400 megawatts, close to the grid's all-time peak. Mid-September to early December is when generators and transmission owners perform maintenance ahead of winter, and power commitments to hot regions in the South and West have further reduced the cushion. PJM has called on demand response, which worked in May, but the weather and plant outages are creating an unpredictable situation that leaves fewer days for important maintenance or construction. FERC has approved PJM's registry of large loads but rejected the plan to allow new data centers to connect without matching capacity if they agree to be curtailed during emergencies.",
  "summary": "An unseasonable heat blast across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic has landed in the middle of PJM Interconnection’s fall maintenance season, and the grid that serves 67 million people is running thin. PJM issued a Maximum Generation Alert for Tuesday and kept a capacity advisory in place through Wednesday, with roughly 62,000 megawatts of generation offline for planned work. Bloomberg reported that…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}