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Comment on $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

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The article's main complaint is that generating capacity has been overbuilt by maybe 10%. That's not a bad thing. There are worse things than extra generating capacity.

I’ve made a large mistake that ended up being a positive for the company I was working for (profit wise) and I took it as seriously as if it had gone in the opposite direction. It was a simple thing but boy did the anxiety of worry destroy me. Can’t imagine what the worry would have been like if it was in the opposite direction

.. at a cost of about $12bn.

The article author thinks that PJM is overpaying for resilience for failure. I'd argue that resilience is worth it. Especially for an era when the US is in wars with countries that might be able to get drones into the US.

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