Source: Canary Media
PJM Interconnection's streamlined battery interconnection timelines address the grid's most acute bottleneck: the multi-year permitting queue that makes storage projects uneconomical. Without this reform, the eastern U.S. grid's transition away from coal toward renewable generation will hit hard physical limits—batteries are the only proven technology that bridges intermittency at scale. That a major grid operator is unblocking its own process signals the constraint is bureaucratic, not technical, and therefore solvable.