The Delaware Project

10/17/2026

A SIGN OF THE SEASON, AND A TREE FOR BEES
An Early Autumn Red Appears On An Overcast Day.

Good Afternoon, Neighbors.

So, last night, while reading up on First State trees to write about Delaware's fall foliage in a few days, I learned that black gum is one of the first trees to change color in our Mid-Atlantic woods.

And then, by coincidence, this afternoon, without looking for them, I think I spotted a few along Kent County’s Firetower Road.

Their alternating purplish-red leaves, distinct from their neighbors' summer green and the overcast sky, drew my attention to what, until yesterday, was a tree I couldn't name on sight.

That tiny bit of luck gave me a smile and reminded me: Learn a little, and you suddenly understand a few things you had never even noticed before.

Here's what I learned from a USDA Forestry page last night:

Black gum, also called black tupelo, is called Nyssa sylvatica among Latin-loving foresters. It's a native deciduous tree commonly reaching 40 to 70 feet. Its glossy, oval leaves grow alternately along the twigs, and its branches often extend almost horizontally. Black gum favors moist, acidic, well-drained soil, though it can appear in places as varied as stream bottoms and dry upland woods.

Its autumn beauty comes with a generous provision for other lives. The small, blue-black fruits are rich in fat and help feed migrating birds. While we admire the leaves, a bird may be finding food for the journey ahead.

And its hollows are useful, too. The U.S. Forest Service ranks black gum among the more dependable trees for wildlife dens. People once made beehives from hollowed black gum trunks, calling them “bee gums.” A tree I had barely noticed is not "just a tree"--it's also a woodland shelter, a fuel supply for migration, and, once upon a time, a sweet source of honey.

Another surprise awaits in the species' leaves themselves. Many of autumn’s yellows, oranges, and golds come from pigments that have been in the leaves throughout the growing season. But chlorophyll's green, now fading, had disguised them throughout the spring and summer.

The pigments behind autumn reds and purples, including black gum's, however? Those are new to the leaves, freshly made as the season turned.

How that happens, and why, is something we'll explain soon enough.

The Delaware Project aims to begin our celebration of Delaware’s autumn foliage in earnest on Sunday, Oct. 25, with more about the colors and the trees wearing them.

For now, I am glad I learned a name before taking a drive. I will be looking for this tree again.

-- Gregory S. Layton, The Delaware Project

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10/17/2026

Hey, Kent County.
We’ve got nonpartisan voter resources for you.
Give ‘em a read on a chilly weekend evening before the start of early voting on Thursday.

CHOOSE WITH CONFIDENCE: KENT COUNTY EDITION:
Out Around The Wilder And The Delaware Project Present Resources For Local Voters.

GOOD EVENING, Kent County,

Out here around the Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Area, we look after each other. That's a Kent County thing, and this fall, looking after each other means taking a close look at the folks asking for our votes.

On Nov. 3, Kent County will choose the people who decide how our farms and towns grow, what it costs to keep the lights on, and how the county answers when we call for help.

Out Around The Wilder and The Delaware Project teamed up on a new guide to help us make fair and informed decisions about who handles those responsibilities in government.

Our newly released guide, Choose With Confidence, Part 2: Kent County, is free to read here:
https://thedelawareproject.substack.com/p/choose-with-confidence-meet-the-kent

INSIDE:
* Snapshots of the nominees in eight contested races for the General Assembly, Levy Court, and Recorder of Deeds, with what each says matters most and links to their campaigns.

* What they say about power bills, farmland, and schools.

* What each office decides, from zoning and 911 to the state budget that funds farmland preservation and homeless services.

* A plain-language look at SB 23, the new housing law, and how Kent’s lawmakers voted on it.

* Early voting sites and hours, Election Day hours, and absentee deadlines.

You don’t need to read it all. Find your districts with the tool linked in the guide, and then read the races on your own ballot.

So, let's make a plan: Which evening will you read up, and when will you vote? Early voting opens Thursday, Oct. 22, at four Kent sites, and polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Tell us your plan in the comments.

Next, think of one neighbor who’s still deciding, and send this their way. Good choices grow from good conversations.

Out Around The Wilder and The Delaware Project don’t endorse candidates. We help you see them clearly. If this guide helps you, subscribe to The Delaware Project on Substack. A free subscription brings each new guide to your inbox, and paid subscriptions help keep them free for everyone.

Thank you for caring about this place and the people in it.

Out Around The Wilder is an outpost of The Delaware Project.

-- Gregory S. Layton, Out Around The Wilder.

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10/16/2026

CHOOSE WITH CONFIDENCE, KENT COUNTY:
New Castle County Coverage Coming By Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Good Evening, Neighbors.

Choose With Confidence, Part 2: Kent County is out, and it’s free to read. The link is in the post below from Out Around The Wilder, our outpost for Kent County.

Inside: the nominees in eight contested races, what Levy Court and the General Assembly decide, and how Kent’s lawmakers voted on SB 23.

Early voting opens Thursday, Oct. 22. Pick your day now; a plan makes it easier to follow through.

Know someone in Kent who’s still deciding? Share this with them.

New Castle County comes next, in two parts, by Tuesday, Oct. 20. Subscribe free to The Delaware Project on Substack, and both will arrive in your inbox. You’ll join more than 4,000 people who follow our work across platforms.

-- Gregory S. Layton, The Delaware Project @ Out Around The Wilder.
See Clearly. Do the Work. Build Together.

CHOOSE WITH CONFIDENCE: KENT COUNTY EDITION:
Out Around The Wilder And The Delaware Project Present Resources For Local Voters.

GOOD EVENING, Kent County,

Out here around the Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Area, we look after each other. That's a Kent County thing, and this fall, looking after each other means taking a close look at the folks asking for our votes.

On Nov. 3, Kent County will choose the people who decide how our farms and towns grow, what it costs to keep the lights on, and how the county answers when we call for help.

Out Around The Wilder and The Delaware Project teamed up on a new guide to help us make fair and informed decisions about who handles those responsibilities in government.

Our newly released guide, Choose With Confidence, Part 2: Kent County, is free to read here:
https://thedelawareproject.substack.com/p/choose-with-confidence-meet-the-kent

INSIDE:
* Snapshots of the nominees in eight contested races for the General Assembly, Levy Court, and Recorder of Deeds, with what each says matters most and links to their campaigns.

* What they say about power bills, farmland, and schools.

* What each office decides, from zoning and 911 to the state budget that funds farmland preservation and homeless services.

* A plain-language look at SB 23, the new housing law, and how Kent’s lawmakers voted on it.

* Early voting sites and hours, Election Day hours, and absentee deadlines.

You don’t need to read it all. Find your districts with the tool linked in the guide, and then read the races on your own ballot.

So, let's make a plan: Which evening will you read up, and when will you vote? Early voting opens Thursday, Oct. 22, at four Kent sites, and polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Tell us your plan in the comments.

Next, think of one neighbor who’s still deciding, and send this their way. Good choices grow from good conversations.

Out Around The Wilder and The Delaware Project don’t endorse candidates. We help you see them clearly. If this guide helps you, subscribe to The Delaware Project on Substack. A free subscription brings each new guide to your inbox, and paid subscriptions help keep them free for everyone.

Thank you for caring about this place and the people in it.

Out Around The Wilder is an outpost of The Delaware Project.

-- Gregory S. Layton, Out Around The Wilder.

See Clearly. Do the Work. Build Together.

10/16/2026

ONE LAST SONG FOR THE CRICKETS
Little Lloyd Doblers Serenade In The Delaware Night.

Good Afternoon, Neighbors.

I've gotta say: There's something magnificently eerie about an October evening in Delaware.

Beneath the darkening sky, as warmth escapes the fields and gardens, amorous chanteurs begin warming up for a closing performance. From beneath fallen leaves, along grassy roadsides, and within the tangled vegetation of backyard borders comes a sound so familiar that we sometimes forget to listen.

But listen closely.

You'll hear several familiar performers in darkness, singing together in a seasonal glee club, if you will. And each one's part in the chorus has a different story behind it.

Much of the music may belong to the fall field cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus), a glossy, dark-bodied insect whose song is among autumn's most recognizable sounds. Unlike its close relative, the spring field cricket, this species matures in late summer, just in time for fall performances.

And what a performance!

The males produce their rhythmic chirps not with their mouths, but by drawing a scraper on one forewing across a finely ridged structure on the other, rather like running a fingernail along a comb. More astonishing still, their ears are on their front legs, where specialized membranes detect sound.

Each familiar chirp is a declaration of existence -- AND, let's call it what it is, a b***y call.

Research has discovered that the male has an impressive acoustic vocabulary. Once a female approaches, his insistent calling song may give way to something almost intimate: soft, shuffling sounds punctuated by tiny ticks and pulses. To be a bit more dainty, we'll call it a "serenade," a courtship song, too quiet for most human listeners to distinguish from the surrounding night.

And the First State's autumnal ensemble includes other remarkable musicians, too

The snowy tree cricket (Oecanthus fultoni), a slender, pale-green performer, sings from shrubs, vines, and woodland edges. Its clear, melodious notes are so closely associated with peaceful summer evenings that recordings have found their way into movie soundtracks.

This little musician, the snowy tree cricket, is also a living thermometer. Its chirping slows as temperatures fall. Scientists have established that, in the eastern United States, counting its chirps for 13 seconds and adding 40 provides an approximate temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.

That's strange in a way, yes, but also the kind of unexpected peculiarity we expect from the natural world.

Closer to the ground, tiny ground crickets contribute their own high-pitched, almost continuous trills. Some measure less than half an inch, yet produce sounds surprisingly powerful for their size. They are among autumn's hardier singers, sometimes continuing long after other insects have fallen silent.

And beneath all this music unfolds an intricate world we seldom witness, and sometimes attempt to poison.

Long antennae investigate the darkness. A cricket retreats beneath a fallen leaf or ventures outward to find food. Another pauses, listening for a rival or a prospective mate. Meanwhile, female tree crickets may climb onto a male's back to feed on nourishing secretions offered during courtship, a remarkable exchange accompanying reproduction.

That's right. He takes care of dinner.

Crickets of all sexes are also participants in nature's quiet housekeeping. They consume plant material, dead insects, and other organic matter, helping return nutrients to the living world. They feed on some smaller insects and, in turn, become nourishment for predators. Their existence supports relationships extending far beyond the boundaries of our gardens.

Their annual cycle makes October's singing especially poignant.

The fall field cricket produces one generation each year. Eggs deposited in the soil enter a dormant state called "diapause", surviving the winter until conditions permit development. In spring, tiny wingless nymphs emerge, resembling miniature versions of their parents. Through successive molts, they grow toward adulthood. By late summer, males begin singing, and the ancient cycle starts anew.

The first heavy frosts and freezing temperatures bring most adult field crickets' lives to an end. Some cold-tolerant ground crickets may continue their trilling a little longer. But beneath the cooling earth, the next generation already waits.

Perhaps that is what makes this season's music so moving. Its performers have only a brief autumn in which to find one another and secure the future.

So when you hear those persistent chirps drifting through a Delaware October night, linger a moment. Maybe perform a tiny ritual.

Perhaps, if you're a bit like me, you'll whisper, "Carpe Diem, Crickets. Go Get 'Em," and make a respectful nod toward the woods before heading inn for the night.

Why? Because you're hearing more than mere background noise. You're hearing courtship, survival, and an extraordinary continuity of life, carried on in places we rarely think to look.

And, if it helps you to imagine a woods full of tiny Lloyd Doblers from "Say Anything" standing with boom boxes over their round cricket heads, that is -- in a way -- what it is.

And soon, they'll be, left cold by the winter. We'll remember hearing them, though, and another generation will join the ancient chorus year.

Just Listen.

-- Gregory S. Layton, The Delaware Project

EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece is a revision of a post that appeared on Sunday, Oct. 11, with a few a few little flourishes added, just for fun.

PHOTO CREDIT: A field cricket photographed in Georgetown by a photographer called "InBetweenBays." Image acquired via iNaturalist.

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10/16/2026

AN ENERGY EMERGENCY, AND A STORY BEING TOLD ABOUT IT

* Last Night, The Delaware Project Examined A Genuine Emergency Involving Our Power Supply. This Morning, We Look At Some Political Actors' Words About It.

(Part Two)

Good Morning, Neighbors.

Yesterday, The Delaware Project laid out the reality of the emergency declared for our electrical grid, operated by PJM.

Today, we'll examine a story built around the emergency, and how that story works, as well as its potential consequences for the public.

We do that below by covering one political party's social media messaging on electrical utility issues from its House and Senate caucuses. We've left out the party's name and its legislators' names, so you can focus on the rhetorical tactics at work.

This article is The Delaware Project's attempt at "prebunking" or teaching the public to spot deceptive or manipulative rhetorical tactics before they encounter them.

Research on “prebunking” finds that learning to name a manipulation technique helps people spot it.

In lab experiments reported in Science Advances in 2022, people who watched 90-second videos were about twice as good as others at spotting some tactics. In a YouTube field test, recognition rose 5 percent.

To help keep the facts straight, we wrote what one researcher calls a "truth sandwich" around the deceptive or manipulative tactics, with the truth above and below them.

1. QUESTIONABLE CAUSE

PJM’s application tied this week’s emergency to elevated demand in hot weather, maintenance outages, transmission work, and power exports.

This week, a state senator posted that the declared emergency “is exactly why” he has pushed to reconsider Delaware’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). To his credit, the senator's Facebook post also cited “our region’s growing energy needs.” Nonetheless, his post never explained how RGGI figured in this week’s shortfall.

A 2023 study by PJM tied 25,000 megawatts of possible retirements to federal EPA rules, other states’ climate policies, a utility’s plan, and corporate pledges. RGGI and renewable credits weren’t listed among the causes for emergencies like the one declared this week, though PJM told reporters those policies' effects on power prices are “implicitly included” in a separate economic analysis. The Delaware Project has found not find the grid operator documennting those effects anywhere.

Nothing the grid operator has put into writing week’s emergency order proves the senator's argument, although he strongly implied that it does.

2. OMISSION

PJM says demand is growing faster than new supply can come online.

One of the party's caucuses used an Oct. 14 post on the emergency to connect retiring power plants, RGGI, Delaware’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, and the need for gas and nuclear. It never mentioned the growing demand for power as a problem, though the caucus did write in February that AI data centers are “driving up demand while supply struggles to keep pace.”

A recent PJM application lists “elevated electric demand” first among the emergency’s causes, but the party's two caucuses have barely mentioned power demand in the past year.

3. NUMBERS WITHOUT A METHOD

RGGI records show Delaware received $59.6 million from 2025 auctions and $77.2 million from the first three of 2026. State law sends most of it to efficiency and clean-energy programs, weatherization, and help for the bills of low-income households.

But that didn’t stop a caucus’s March 23 post from calling those annual totals “YOUR money” and “carbon credit costs that are built into your electric bill,” under the headline “END THIS HIDDEN TAX.” The caucus promised “immediate savings” from leaving RGGI, without saying how. The caucus never showed how much of that money reaches Delawareans' bills.

Another opinion feature by the party's caucus in the state legislature's other chamber said ratepayers “collectively paid an additional $12.3 million in RGGI-imposed costs” in 2025, without saying how it reached that figure.

RGGI’s records match that post’s text for 2024, $57.4 million, although not the $57.9 million on its graphic. Meanwhile, for good or bad, the critics' bill to rebate auction proceeds above 2025 levels has waited in committee since January.

4. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

RGGI states did beat the program’s early targets. That's true because the targets were always meant to be achievable and adjusted downward over time. In fact, emissions ran so far below the RGGI's original cap that states lowered it by 45 percent in 2014, federal data show.

In April, a caucus post said Delaware “met and exceeded its emissions reduction goals back in 2015” and was “increasingly out of step” after Pennsylvania and Virginia left.

Those were early goals, and Virginia’s legislature had already voted to rejoin. It returned July 1. RGGI’s cap still tightens every year, and Delaware’s proposed share shrinks through 2037.

5. THE COST LEFT UNAID

Tax credits cost the state money, too, and refundable credits are sometimes paid out even when no tax is owed.

Both of the political party's caucuses we're examining backed HB 186, a bipartisan bill offering as many as three gas plants refundable tax credits of up to $15 million a year each. It did not advance from committee. Both also call RGGI’s costs a “hidden tax.” The Senate caucus called HB 186 “a targeted, capped tax credit”; the House caucus said it “would not require any public expenditure.”

The state’s fiscal note puts the credits’ maximum at $450 million and calls the revenue loss “indeterminable.”

6. SELECTIVE BLAME

PJM credits offshore wind with 60 percent of its rated capacity toward reliability, more than solar, onshore wind, or a four-hour battery.

In August, the caucus behind the emergency post declared that reducing restrictions on power producers would encourage more generation. And yet, the party's caucus in the state legislature's other chamber has noted on emphasized that its legislators cast most of the votes against a 2025 law to the way for a Sussex County substation. That substation would serve an offshore wind project, generating 2,000 megawatts for grid now declaring an emergency.

Opponents of offshore wind cited local control, tourism and the Inland Bays. To varying degrees, those are legitimate concerns, as are health and environmental concerns about other power sources. Nonetheless, the caucus calling for fewer restrictions appeared unconcerned that wind opponents' concerns also discourage power generation.

On solar, the Senate caucus has posted that its members unanimously supported the 2021 community-solar law, which passed the Senate 21-0. Still, in September, one of its senators urged Kent County’s Levy Court to reconsider a 25-acre community solar farm near Kenton, citing possible contamination and noise, and argued that such projects won’t be built without government subsidies. Meawnwhile, he had co-sponsored HB 186, whose gas-plant tax credits his caucus says would add “dependable baseload power.”

But, without question, gas-plant tax credits are a form of government subsidy, too.

The caucus's emergency post faulted costly policies. But it did so while failing to mention its own members’ votes against the offshore wind hookup, or a senator’s recent objections to a solar farm.

And the federal administration lifting regulations on power suppliers to address energy demand this week has also asked a court to undo the offshore wind project’s approval.

WHY DOES ANY OF THIS MATTER?

None of these techniques requires false statements, although they sometimes involve them, and the impression they create may often be deceptive -- or misleading, at least.

Deceptive or manipulative rhetorical tactics around energy policy can cause Delawareans to lose in three ways:

* On our bills, if demand-driven capacity costs go unaddressed;
* In our health, if pollution waivers become routine;
* And in our trust, which self-government needs.

To help maintain honest clarity in our public debate over energy issues, two questions are worth putting to every candidate on the Nov. 3 ballot:

* Who should pay for the power data centers need?
* And which new sources of supply would you approve, and by when?

We can disagree about RGGI, renewables, gas, and reactors and still agree on this: our neighbors deserve the whole story, especially in an emergency.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part series. For background, see Part One, which we posted on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 15. ADDENDUM: The article above was revised at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 16 for clarity.

-- Gregory S. Layton, The Delaware Project

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10/15/2026

AN ENERGY EMERGENCY, AND A STORY BEING TOLD
The Delaware Project Examines A Genuine Threat To Our Power Supply, And A Story Being Told About It.

(Part I)

Good Evening, Neighbors.

If you follow the news media or certain political accounts on social media, you probably have an idea about what we're referring to already.

So, let's not be coy or evasive: The Emergency? It's REAL.

On Oct. 12, the U.S. energy secretary signed Order No. 202-26-50 at the request of PJM Interconnection, which runs the regional grid serving Delaware, 12 other states, and Washington, D.C. Through Friday, Oct. 16, at least, PJM may run listed power plants beyond the limits in their environmental permits when it needs them for reliability, and may order data centers and other large customers onto their own backup generators as a last resort before rolling blackouts.

In other words, the U.S. government thinks there's a significant chance your lights could go out this week.

One of the plants allowed to exceed their environmental permits is here, in Delaware. Indian River 10, a small oil-fired turbine near Dagsboro that entered service in 1967. Its operating hours are normally capped to limit nitrogen oxide pollution.

Even short-term exposure to NOx can contribute to physical irritation and coughing. The gas can cause severe respiratory problems, environmental damage, and contribute to other forms of pollution over time

What Caused The Energy Emergency?
PJM’s application to the Department of Energy names four causes: elevated demand in hot weather, an expected 61,600 megawatts of generation offline during the autumn maintenance season, planned transmission work and commitments to export power. PJM forecast it would come within 900 megawatts of its required reserves on Oct. 14. It asked paid demand-response customers to cut use through the afternoon peak and into the evening, when solar output falls to zero.

PJM also told reporters: “increased baseload electricity demand is growing faster than new capacity can come onto the system.” DOE has issued PJM 18 emergency orders this year, counting extensions.

What’s Driving Demand, And Costs?
PJM forecasts summer peak demand rising 3.6 percent a year for a decade, a pace its planning chief, discussing data centers, called “higher than anything we have seen in recent decades.”

PJM’s independent market monitor estimates that $6.3 billion of the $16.4 billion in charges from PJM’s latest capacity auction, for 2028-29, resulted from data center demand, as did 9.7 percent of wholesale power costs in the first half of 2026. Delmarva attributed its 19 percent summer supply-rate increase to “higher regional electricity supply costs.”

Supply matters, too. PJM warned in 2023 that 40,000 megawatts of generation was retiring or at risk of retiring by 2030 while new supply lagged. Critics of state climate policies argue that added costs can retire older plants before replacements that run at peak hours arrive, and that rising demand makes that timing riskier.

What Can Be Bult, And How Quickly?
No option is available in the short-term, but some are quicker and cheaper than others. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s planning assumptions put construction at about a year for batteries, two for solar and gas turbines, three for combined-cycle gas plants and onshore wind, four for offshore wind and six for a small modular reactor.

Lazard’s 2026 analysis puts unsubsidized new utility-scale solar at $40 to $98 per megawatt-hour and onshore wind at $37 to $99, against $51 to $129 for gas combined-cycle plants, $105 to $167 for offshore wind and $175 to $255 for nuclear. Lazard notes those figures exclude the cost of firming weather-dependent sources.

But cost isn’t reliability. For 2028-29, PJM credits a megawatt of solar with 7 to 10 percent of its rated capacity toward reliability, a four-hour battery with 59 percent, offshore wind with 60 percent and a gas combined-cycle plant with 78 percent. Solar and batteries still make up nearly four of five megawatts planned for U.S. addition this year, the EIA reports. GE Vernova, a leading gas-turbine maker, is booking deliveries for 2031.

Delaware’s bipartisan nuclear task force concluded in July that a Delaware small modular reactor “would not generate electricity before the mid-to-late 2030s at the earliest” and that ratepayers shouldn’t bear the risk of failure.

US Wind’s planned project of up to 2,000 megawatts off Ocean City, which would bring power ashore in Sussex County, has been delayed by legal fights, including a federal bid in court to undo its approval. This week, Delaware’s Environmental Appeals Board sent DNREC’s coastal-management review of the project back for another look.

What About Indian River?
Delaware’s last coal unit, Indian River 4, closed in February 2025. NRG chose to retire it in 2021, citing falling PJM capacity prices; one trade report said an executive also blamed state renewable subsidies. PJM then asked NRG to keep it running under a reliability contract paid for by customers until Delmarva finished transmission upgrades, letting it retire 22 months early at an estimated savings of $93 million. The plant’s three older units closed under 2007 and 2010 agreements with DNREC to cut air pollution.

This year, two state senators began exploring how to bring the site back, aiming for natural gas. NRG says restarting coal “is not on the table.” In February, a developer named NRG Indian River Energy Center LLC asked PJM to connect a gas plant of nearly 1,500 megawatts there. It withdrew the request on Sept. 24, PJM’s records show.

What Does The Emergency Cost Our Health?
While the order is in force, listed plants may exceed limits on sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants, and those hours won’t count toward their rolling limits. The EPA says short-term exposure to either gas can harm airways and aggravate asthma, and that children are especially vulnerable. PJM must notify DOE daily of each listed plant it runs under the order.

Emergency orders like this one permit plants to trade cleaner air for reliability. This year, DOE has issued PJM orders like it in January, June, July and twice in September.

Tomorrow, in Part II: The Delaware Project will examine the story being some political actors are telling about this emergency, and how to recognize the techniques they're using to tell it.

-- Gregory S. Layton, The Delaware Project

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IMAGE CREDIT:
The illustration below was created with AI guided by Gregory S. Layton, and draws imagery from a photograph of power lines and homes in Ewing, N.J., taken in October 2014. The photographer uses the name "Famartin," who posted the image on Wikimedia Commons. The Delaware Project cropped, tinted, and added text to the image. We used it here as licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.