Power Plant Outages Surge in Eastern US Amid Restricted Gas Supplies and Frigid Weather

BOSTON/HOUSTON—Power plant outages surged along the eastern United States on Sunday as constricted natural gas supplies and frigid temperatures cut the electricity output of the region’s generation fleet. The PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. regional grid that serves 67 million people in the East and Mid-Atlantic, reported nearly 21 gigawatts of generation outages, with most […]