By Laila Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Talen Power has requested U.S. regulators to reject a problem to its latest Amazon (NASDAQ:) information heart deal, which is being opposed by a gaggle of electrical utilities that say the settlement might increase energy payments for most of the people, based on a submitting on Friday.
Talen stated the problem, introduced by utilities together with American Electrical Energy (NASDAQ:) and Exelon (NASDAQ:), was inaccurate and that its interconnection settlement for the Amazon information heart website wouldn’t trigger grid reliability issues or spiking energy prices for the utility clients.
“It’s an illegal try to hijack this restricted interconnection service settlement modification continuing that they don’t have any stake in and switch it into an advert hoc nationwide referendum on the way forward for information heart load,” Talen stated in its submitting with the Federal Power Regulatory Fee.
Know-how corporations are in a race to entry huge quantities of electrical energy provides to energy and funky the information facilities, or large laptop warehouses, wanted to roll out applied sciences like generative AI. Nuclear power, which is nearly carbon free and offers around-the-clock energy, has change into a prime choose for the information heart trade.
Talen introduced in March that it had entered into an settlement to promote electrical energy and an information heart campus positioned at its Pennsylvania nuclear energy plant to Amazon Net Providers. The deal would supply Amazon’s laptop warehouses with an electrical capability of as much as 960 megawatts, or sufficient to energy about one million properties.
A handful of electrical utilities, together with American Electrical Energy and Exelon, final month requested FERC to carry a listening to to extra deeply scrutinize Talen’s interconnection settlement with Amazon or deny it outright. The group stated the interconnection settlement for the information heart might lead to a $140 million per 12 months value shift to on a regular basis ratepayers.