Demand and Response: How Utilities Are Answering the Call for Large-Load Power Supply

Need power? Who doesn’t? Need it right away? Get in line.

As Site Selection Executive Vice President Ron Starner told an audience at the Minnesota Rural Electric Association in August, the requests for large-load power supply today are unprecedented. They come primarily (but not exclusively) from the more than 600 data center projects in the U.S. tracked by Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database since January 2020.

Power is always in the driver’s seat for these investments: JLL said in August that the average wait time for a grid connection in the U.S. has now reached four years.

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