West Virginia ratepayers are seeing rising electricity bills as the regional grid scrambles to meet the massive energy demand from data centers in Virginia. The state’s coal reliance and shrinking population are compounding the problem. Data centers in other states are raising power costs in West Virginia appeared first on Mountain State Spotlight, West Virginia's civic newsroom.| Mountain State Spotlight
Energy costs have been rising across the United States as demand continues to increase due to power-hungry data centers and the push toward… The post States Are Concerned About Rising Electricity Prices appeared first on IER.| IER
Voters are mad at Trump over rising bills, but assigning blame is complicated.| Heatmap News
The three letter acronym I heard the most during New York Climate Week wasn’t EPA, COP, NDC, or GHG. It was PJM. The country’s largest electricity market — the PJM Interconnection, which reaches into 13 states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and Michigan — has become the poster child for data center growth, clogged interconnection queues, and political backlash to rising electricity prices. Nearly every conversation I have about PJM includes a preamble about how nerdy and imp...| Heatmap News
Why regional transmission organizations as we know them might not survive the data center boom.| Heatmap News
By Gordon Tomb Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cap electricity prices could, perversely, lead to higher customer bills and a greater risk of blackouts, according to America’s Power, a trade organization of coal-fired power plants. Following negotiations with the governor, power grid operator PJM Interconnection submitted a plan to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to restrict prices for two … Read more| CO2 Coalition