In February, the Maryland Office of Peoples Counsel (“Maryland OPC”) took up the cause, challenging the cost allocation via PJM’s regional process to address reliability violations on the transmission grid. Department of Energy, “AI for Energy, Opportunities for a Modern Grid and Clean Energy Economy” (April 2024), available at https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/AI%20EO%20Report%20Section%205.2g%28i%29_043024.pdf (“DOE Report”). 3Goldman Sachs, “Generation growth; AI, data centers and the coming US power demand surge (Apr. 12Hiller, Jennifer and Patterson, Scott, “How Big Data Centers Are Slowing the Shift to Clean Energy,” Wall Street Journal (Apr. 27See DOE Report at 24–25, 39–41, identifying risks from the integration of AI on the power grid.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2024 17:43 UTC