The Department of Energy has ordered the power grid operator covering all or part of 13 states and the District of Columbia to get equipment and backup power generation ready to prevent blackouts.
Federal energy officials said Monday that they ordered regional transmission organization PJM Interconnection LLC to marshal the extra resources “as needed to maintain reliability” in light of heightened demand, planned transmission outages and planned outages for generator maintenance.
The order, issued Monday, went into effect Tuesday and will last through Friday…