July 17, 2025
| Today’s news and insights for utility leaders
David LaCerte works at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He served during Trump’s first term and helped on Project 2025, the conservative road map to “deconstruct the Administrative State.”
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The Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, which President Trump attended, touted heavy investments in AI and power infrastructure. Jefferies analysts said PPL scored a victory there.
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It costs far less — and takes less time — to aggregate existing customer-sited resources than it does to build new dispatchable generation or storage. “Light bulbs are starting to go off,” said one expert.
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Data center development is driving unprecedented electricity demand growth.
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Google, Blackstone and FirstEnergy announced multibillion-dollar Pennsylvania projects at the summit, including new data centers and new gas plants to power them.
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