Data centers increasingly turn to off-grid gas

Edison Electric Institute and its members: The linked article discusses lost investment opportunities for utilities. Utilities could capture more of this business if they could move faster and be more innovative. “Consumer Regulated Electricity” (CRE) can help do just that. CRE would allow utilities to set up unregulated affiliates that would be free from utility regulation and could go chase that lost opportunity.
“Thirty percent of planned data center capacity is slated to use power built directly by developers….”
(Article is paywalled.)

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/02/05/data-centers-increasingly-turn-to-off-grid-gas-00766275

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