Utility, Grid, and Commercial Opportunities
Advancing Old Forge's Grid and Utility Opportunities
Old Forge offers a proposed combination of sustained power, adjustable output, and bidirectional voltage support. REA has matched these capabilities to specific PPL and regional system needs, with a clear operating duty and a practical comparison against conventional transmission investment.
The development record includes historical PJM interconnection studies and corrected independent AC screening dated September 9, 2026. The screening identifies location-dependent electrical influence that warrants focused utility evaluation. The commercial objective is a service that performs when required and has a lifecycle cost justified by the need it serves.
Current Commercial Objective
Services REA Seeks to Evaluate with Qualified Counterparties
REA seeks utility, grid, industrial, and infrastructure counterparties to evaluate the following service and commercial opportunities.
Grid and network integration
- PJM market participation
- PPL Electric system support
- Interconnection and deliverability
- Congestion relief
- Transmission support
Storage, capacity, and charging
- Capacity
- Long-duration energy storage
- Charging arrangements
- Utility storage services
Reliability and restoration
- Voltage and reactive-power support
- Frequency response
- Restoration
- Black-start capability
- Critical-infrastructure resilience
Customer supply
- Industrial service
- Separately approved large loads
Commercial development
- Tolling agreements
- Energy Storage Services Agreements
- Strategic investment
- Funded development
- Project acquisition
Service delivery will be established through applicable engineering studies, market qualification, operating requirements, and agreements.
Priority Counterparties
Who REA Is Seeking to Engage
PPL Electric Utilities
Interconnection, transmission planning, substation and network facilities, deliverability, restoration, and potential utility solutions. REA seeks appropriate technical and commercial evaluation with PPL Electric Utilities.
PJM Interconnection
Interconnection queue, market participation, capacity accreditation, operating requirements, planning, and regional reliability. REA has engaged PJM processes and seeks to advance interconnection and market evaluation.
Invitium Energy
REA is seeking technical and commercial review of potential energy-service, reliability, development, acquisition, and other project arrangements.
Utilities and public-power entities
Capacity, energy shifting, reliability, restoration, tolling, and storage-service arrangements with qualified utility and public-power counterparties.
Infrastructure investors and strategic acquirers
Development capital, milestone financing, project investment, acquisition options, debt, and construction capital.
Equipment, engineering, and construction firms
Final engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, equipment supply, warranties, and long-term service.
Transaction Pathways
Commercial Structures Under Evaluation
Energy Storage Services Agreement
Contracted capacity, charging, generation, energy shifting, reliability, or ancillary services.
Tolling Agreement
Counterparty dispatch or defined service rights within operating, market, and regulatory requirements.
Interconnection and Network Facilities
Utility ownership or provision of appropriate facilities with cost responsibility assigned under applicable rules.
Transmission-Support Evaluation
Case-specific analysis of whether defined reliability needs can be solved or deferred by storage.
Reimbursed Development Agreement
Cost-reimbursed diligence, studies, exclusivity, and milestone advancement.
Option or Acquisition Structure
FERC-counsel-approved option, milestone payments, post-license acquisition, or later transfer subject to required approvals.
Commercial Development Record
Commercial Development Record
REA has evaluated grid participation, utility and industrial service, critical-infrastructure resilience, electric-vehicle charging, microgrids, and large-load supply as potential revenue arrangements for Old Forge. These evaluations form part of the project's development history and its objective of supporting long-term Borehole water recovery.
The Engineering & Project Record page presents the dated record. View the Engineering & Project Record
Project Scope and Potential Customers
For information on Old Forge's proposed facilities and how the project relates to potential customers, including separately proposed large loads, see the project-scope FAQ.