PJM Board's Data Connection Plan Includes Backstop Auction

January 22, 2026--Written by Paul Wiseman for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)--Managing speed of implementation, reliability, and price is the three-legged balancing act faced by today's power grid operators. On Friday PJM Interconnection's board, following a White House meeting of governors of many PJM-managed states, issued instructions for dealing with those issues, including a reliability backup auction.