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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro had opening remarks yesterday in Philadelphia speaking at the Summit on the State of PJM Interconnection, which focused on bringing its representatives together for PJM to bothadaptand modernize so they can meet the demands of energy across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest covering 65 million Americans. According to Shapiro in his remarks yesterday, those present were there to “reimagine the future of PJM, build a grid that works better for Pennsylvania and for each of our states. Let’s face it. Change is needed to keep energy costs low, renew energy generation onto the grid more quickly; meet the needs of the nearly seventy million Americans who rely on this grid for everything from running a business to keeping the lights on at home.” Those states that PJM covers are Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with parts or all of the District of Columbia.