A substation failure knocked a Baltimore coal-fired power plant offline Monday afternoon, forcing PJM to order emergency power cuts in the area. (Bloomberg)
The outage tripped both units at Talen Energy’s 1,289-MW Brandon Shores plant and idled its 702-MW H.A. Wagner oil-fired plant. Wagner can restart soon, but Brandon Shores Unit 1 will stay offline until BGE repairs the damaged transmission link.