Pennsylvania

May 28, 2026

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Helios Hits 1.6 GW on CREZ Lines Built for Wind a Decade Ago

Pennsylvania and New Jersey governors roll out conditional incentive frameworks that signal where national regulation is heading.

May 26, 2026

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Disclosure Is Coming. Developers Tracking Water Now Won't Break Stride.

Pennsylvania shows the state-level version of the same fracture: four House bills passed with bipartisan support, but Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman is holding for a "holistic" framework.

May 25, 2026

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Texas Ranks First on Power. A 5,500-Person Town Decides the Water.

Texas, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania already require formal load-interconnection review for large electricity users.

May 22, 2026

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Dallas Wins #1 Globally as Corpus Christi Shows the Real Constraint

Risk: Virginia's framework will likely travel to Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

May 21, 2026

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Dallas, Austin, West Texas Sweep the Global Top Three

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is losing his base after a 2021 tax-incentive law moved faster than community engagement.

May 19, 2026

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NextEra Pays $67B for the Playbook Texas Has Run Since 2024

Out of state, New Jersey faces a 60-group coalition petition and five legislative bills targeting 20 MW-plus facilities, Pennsylvania's House passed four bills the Senate has stalled, and Utah's HB 60 has narrowed the State Engineer's "public welfare" authority to water pollution and scarcity grounds.

April 27, 2026

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Wisconsin Makes Hyperscalers Pay 100% of Their Own Generation Build

Pennsylvania's DEP is processing Amazon air permits for 86 diesel and 280 gas-fired generators across two counties while a House resolution studies whether the state should leave PJM at all.

April 20, 2026

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Hyperscalers Stop Waiting on the Grid as ERCOT Stares at 218 GW

Pennsylvania's Slate Belt is papered with "NO DATA CENTERS ON OUR FARMS" signs as Peron Development and J.G. Petrucci's 1.2 GW, 450-acre Lower Mount Bethel project seeks agricultural-to-industrial rezoning.

April 19, 2026

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Anchored Offtake Wins the Queue. Speculation Gets Repriced.

Pennsylvania's House passed HB 2150 (mandatory energy and water reporting starting July 1, 2027) and HB 2151 (optional model zoning), both now facing a Republican Senate where Sen. Coleman has floated a three-year moratorium and Rep. Craig Williams's HB 2372 would force data centers to pay full interconnection costs.

April 6, 2026

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When Military Strikes Take Down Cloud Regions, Location Becomes Strategy

Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the only PJM states currently exporting energy, with Virginia's 35% share of global hyperscale data centers drawing heavily on imports.

March 22, 2026

Pennsylvania's House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee will consider HB 2246 on March 23, targeting water withdrawal oversight specifically for data centers.

March 14, 2026

Pennsylvania's 53 active proposals are generating their own backlash.

March 11, 2026

Pennsylvania offers a contrast worth watching.

March 9, 2026

In Pennsylvania, a 500-kV line across John Zola's 40-acre property in Sugarloaf exemplifies the fight: 240-foot steel towers looming over orchards and homes.

March 8, 2026

Pennsylvania: State Sen. Katie Muth announced bipartisan legislation for a three-year moratorium on hyperscale datacenters