PJM

Frequency spike in PJM (Wednesday 22nd July 2026) with sudden ~3,000MW demand drop

Fri 24^th July 2026 9:14 AM | Paul McArdle

At 07:56:24 local time on Wednesday 22nd July 2026 in PJM, the frequency spiked to ~60.1Hz in response to a ~3,000MW sudden drop in demand.

Tis the season … for a ‘bomb cyclone’ in North America that stretches wholesale supplies of electricity (and leaves >1M customers off supply with localised network outages)

Sat 24^th December 2022 10:39 PM | Paul McArdle

All's been quiet in the Australian National Electricity Market ... which is not the same as the situation in North America, where extreme cold has stretched supplies across a large swathe of the country and storms have disrupted supply to more than a million people.