RTO Insider — September 2026
“Governance Speed Is Not a Legal Abstraction; It’s an Engineering Constraint”
In this op-ed for RTO Insider’s Stakeholder Forum, Mica Tufillaro makes the engineering case behind PJM’s governance debate: the physical grid — transformers, switchgear, interconnection queues — doesn’t wait for stakeholder consensus to finish forming. Responding to Vincent Duane’s piece on PJM’s “red/green” function split, Tufillaro argues that decision latency in grid governance is itself a reliability variable.
“Reliability and interconnection engineering truth are not negotiable inputs to a multi-year consensus process, because the hardware they describe doesn’t pause while the process runs.”
This engineering lens is the same one LIS Analytics applies at the facility level: our patent-pending LIS™ Engine uses sub-cycle waveform observability to find the electrical capacity already inside your infrastructure — capacity masked by harmonic distortion and structural loss, not absent. Learn how the Nodal Integrity Formula works
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