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On April 4, Utility Dive reported the US Department of Energy has identified 16 federal locations for potential construction of data centers and associated energy resources in a published request for information from stakeholders.
Two of those locations were at the National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh Campus that is share with the CDC and NIOSH offices recently hit with staff cuts [Read more here].
The agency said the projects could be online in less than two years.
The RFI aligns with plans Trump announced in January to accelerate power plant development for co-located artificial intelligence data centers using an energy emergency declaration.
It is also similar to an executive order former President Biden signed in January, targeting development of AI data centers powered by clean energy.
The RFI, however, does not specify clean energy will be used in powering data centers.
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Resource Link:
-- PUC Launches Review Of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth, Sets April 24 Hearing [PaEN]
NewsClips This Week:
-- Utility Dive: US DOE Offers 16 Locations For Possible Data Center, Energy Infrastructure Development
-- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I. Data Center, The Country’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [PDF of Article]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It
-- TribLive: Homer City Site: Large Gas-Fired Power Plant To Support Data Center
-- The Center Square: New Natural Gas-Powered A.I. Data Center Coming To Homer City, Indiana County
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I. Data Center With Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant
-- Pittsburgh Works Statement On Homer City Data Center, Gas Power Plant Redevelopment Project
-- PA Capital-Star/Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Foes And Friends Of Nuclear Power Face Off Near Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
-- PennLive: Dauphin County Owned 228-Acre Golf Course Could Be Sold For Data Center Space
-- Utility Dive: FERC Review Of PJM Colocation Rules For Data Centers, Large Loads May Extend Past Mid-Year: Analysts
PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards:
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 29 to April 4 - Failed To Restore 3MG Water Impoundment; Failed To Get Pipeline Permits; Nearly 7 Years Without Conventional Well Spill Cleanup [PaEN]
-- DEP: Shale Gas Driller Failed To Restore 3 Million Gallon Water Impoundment, Well Site For Nearly 8 Years In Clinton County [PaEN]
-- DEP: Nearly 7 Year Struggle Continues To Cleanup Multiple Conventional Oil Well Spills At Site In Economy Borough, Beaver County [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 5 [PaEN]
-- EPA To Hold May 6 Virtual Hearing [If Requested] On Proposed Permit For A Sandstone Development Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Lafayette Twp., McKean County [PaEN]
-- Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On Spill Notification Regulation Changes; May 15 Virtual Hearing [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission April 24 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Renewal Of 2 Shale Gas Water Projects [PaEN]
-- DEP To Use General Permit To Implement New Federal Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulation [PaEN]
-- DEP Announces Availability Of Air Quality General Permit For Gaseous Fuel-Fired Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engines (GP-16) [Copy of GP-16]
-- DEP Posted 83 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 5 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
Related Article This Week:
-- Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project: Lois Bower-Bjornson Shares Her First-Hand Experiences With Shale Gas Health, Environmental Impacts In Washington County [PaEN]
-- 7 Years Ago, People From Over 70 Households Gave First-Hand Accounts Of How The PA Shale Gas Industry Impacted Their Health, Lives And Communities To A State Grand Jury Describing The ‘Sometimes Harsh Reality’ Of These Operations [PaEN]
-- Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale Gas Motion To Exclude Evidence Of Medical Conditions, Toxicology Reports Related To A Landowner Appeal Of A DEP Water Supply Contamination Determination [PaEN]
-- House Environmental Committee Meets April 7 On Bill To Establish DEP Environmental Justice Permit Review Program To Analyze, Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Pollution From Some New Facilities [PaEN]
-- DEP Climate Change Committee Meets April 22 On Microgrids, Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Update On Federal Clean Energy, Climate Funding Programs [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Supreme Court Upholds Rule Of Capture In Resurrected Trespass Case [PDF of Article]
-- Guest Essay: The Real Waste In Pennsylvania Government - Criticizing The Right Of Citizens To Petition Their Government For Change - By Terrie Baumgardner, Resident Of Aliquippa, Clean Air Council Outreach Coordinator [PaEN]
-- Utility Dive: US DOE Offers 2 National Energy Technology Laboratory Sites In Pittsburgh For Colocating Data Centers, Related Power Plants [PaEN]
NewsClips:
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: PA Health Advocates Say Gov. Shapiro Has Let Residents Down On Shale Gas Fracking Protections
-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Still Room For Frontline Community Protections From Shale Gas Impacts In Gov. Shapiro’s ‘Lightning’ Energy Plan - By Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Chesapeake Energy, Fined $1.9 Million For Damaging Wetlands In PA, Is On New Federal ‘Fast Track’ Permit Approval List
-- TribLive: Decision On 2nd Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Boro, Allegheny County To Come In June, Zoning Board Says
-- Bradford Era: Another Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Proposed In McKean County; Hearing Will Only Be Held By Public Request [PDF of Article]
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Report Says Pennsylvania Poised To Be Geothermal Energy Leader
-- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I. Data Center, The Country’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [PDF of Article]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It
-- TribLive: Homer City Site: Large Gas-Fired Power Plant To Support Data Center
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I. Data Center With Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant
-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Northeast PA A Hot Spot For Potential Data Centers
-- AP - Marc Levy: New Wave Of Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Sends States Racing To Attract The Industry [PA Included]
-- The Center Square: Report: Pennsylvania Energy Affordability Lagging With Current Electric Generation Profile [New Generation Just Serving Data Centers Doesn’t Help]
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Sen. Yaw’s Bill To Prohibit Bans Of Any Energy Sources Correct
-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Power Plant Developers Exiting Texas Program To Kickstart Power Generation Over Cost Uncertainty, Supply-Chain Delays [Sen. Yaw Proposed Same Program In PA]
-- Energy Choice Matters: Peoples Natural Gas Rate For Gas To Increase Another 14% April 1
-- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Natural Gas Raises Gas Rate Another 14% April 1
-- Reuters: Oil, Gas, Refined Product Imports Exempt From President’s Tariffs [The Things They Buy Are Not]
-- The Center Square: Critics: Climate Change Lawsuit Against Oil & Gas Companies On Tenuous Legal Grounds [Bucks County Example]
[Posted: April 4, 2025]
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