Largest US Power Grid Faces Dire Crisis By 2030 If Data Center Load Growth Continues

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Source: Zero Hedge
Published: 2026-09-16 08:50 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Business, Science, Energy
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By 2030, the PJM Interconnection, the largest US electrical grid in the US serving 67 million people in 13 northeast states, is likely to face a “loss of load expectation,” or LOLE - a key reliability metric used by power system planners to measure the expected number of hours or days per year that a power grid's electricity generation will fail to meet customer demand - between six and 100 times worse than the grid operator’s planning criterion, mainly due
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