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Peak electricity demand in the 48 contiguous states set records twice in the last of week of July, reaching 758,053 and 759,180 MW over one-hour periods July 28 and 29.
PPL expects the current surplus of generation in its Pennsylvania territory will be lost to demand growth from data centers in the next five years and said it has plans to help meet that growing demand with new generation.
Growing power demand from data centers dominated conversations at the NARUC Summer Policy Summit, where industry members and Trump administration officials advocated for the rapid addition of fossil fuel resources and infrastructure to meet load growth.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly told NARUC attendees the agency’s proposed rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.”
EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.
DTE Energy reported it is in various stages of discussion to supply as much as 7 GW to new data centers and is on track to reach agreement on the first project by the end of 2025.
PJM's Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed by acclamation an issue charge by Constellation Energy focused on how storage as a transmission asset could be implemented in the RTO.
As it updates its energy to reflect new challenges to decarbonization, New York is contemplating what until recently seemed improbable: new fossil-fired generation.
FERC approved Constellation's purchase of Calpine, which will create an even bigger IPP with nearly 60 GW around the country, with the biggest share of that in PJM.
GE Vernova’s gas power and electrification businesses continue to surge amid growing power demand.
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