Weeks after Public Service Company of Oklahoma won approval for its $730 million acquisition of the Green Country Power Plant in Jenks, a move based on anticipated growth in power demands, PSO’s parent company is out with a projection of connecting to 24 GW of new load by 2030.
That’s a 15% increase from the previous estimate by American Electric Power and the company contends 18 GW will come from data centers.
A report by Utility Dive suggested much of the demand will be due to the multitude of data centers under construction in Texas, where the grid is controlled by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. The Southwest Power Pool, of which Oklahoma is a member, will be responsible for about 2.5 GW of the customer commitments made to AEP.
AEP’s utilities have about 5.6 million customers in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
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