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PJM Interconnection has overseen two record-breaking capacity auctions, leading to costs that get passed on to consumers. By Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong PJM Interconnection, the nonprofit that manages the country’s largest electricity grid region, is barely known by the general public and almost never mentioned by elected officials—except when somethingContinue Reading

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Agrivoltaic solar arrays can shade crops from sun while moisture from vegetation cools the panels to increase their productivity, researchers and farmers have found. By Tina Deines “We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits heContinue Reading