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Kinsey Grant Baker
Kinsey Grant Baker
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NEWS: Storms, AI demand and policy failures are upending US grid

What else did utility leaders have to say to FERC’s top brass this week? (E&E News)

  • “In our forecast between 2024 and 2030, currently we have a 32-gigawatt increase in demand, of which 30 is from data centers,” said Manu Asthana, CEO of the PJM.

  • “We are now projecting our peak demand to be as much as 75% higher 10 years from now, and that’s largely driven by electrification and data center growth,” said Lanny Nickell, CEO of the Southwest Power Pool. SPP said outages are now 125 times more likely than they were eight years ago.