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March 12, 2025

States dangle incentives to attract power plants

  • The spike in demand for electricity is being driven in large part by the AI race.
    • By MARC LEVY
    Associated Press

    HARRISBURG, Pa. — Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from rising electric bills, power outages and other consequences of falling behind Big Tech in a race for electricity.

    Some states are dangling financial incentives. Others are undoing decades of regulatory structures in what they frame as a race to serve the basic needs of residents, avoid a catastrophe and keep their economies on track in a fast-electrifying society.


     
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