Published • loading... • Updated
Data Center Demand Pushes Utilities to Delay Coal Retirements and Add Gas
Utilities are adding gas and revising clean-power plans as data centers drive record load growth and threaten emissions targets, industry officials said.
- In Las Vegas, the largest utility says it needs three times the electricity required to power the city just to handle proposed data centers, forcing providers to rework plans.
- Shawn Elicegui, senior vice president of regulatory and resource planning for Energy, said "I can't remember a time in the history of the industry where we've seen as much interest in adding load, which is primarily driven by data centers."
- Nevada's utility could miss targets requiring 50% renewable power by 2030, as Legislators removed an interim goal for utilities to cut carbon emissions, spurring concern the state might miss its goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050.
- NextEra Energy, which serves commercial electricity in over a dozen states, completely dropped its goal to reach zero emissions by 2045 due to the "demand for all forms of power generation," the company said.
- Some data centers want to be part of the solution, said Dan Diorio, vice president of state policy for the Data Center Coalition, noting the industry was responsible for 50% of all corporate clean energy procurement.
Insights by Ground AI
33 Articles
33 Articles
Coverage Details
Total News Sources33
Leaning Left15Leaning Right4Center11Last UpdatedBias Distribution50% Left
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left
50% Left
L 50%
C 37%
13%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
