The NRG Energy Inc. electric power plants developer. It is associated with GE Vernova Inc. and Kiewit Corp. In a company to speed up the projects of natural gas plants for data centers. Companies are already planning to build four plants for a total of 5 GW in the states of Texas and the Middle Atlantic.
Companies seek to meet the demand for increasing power for computer science and artificial intelligence. In a statement, they said that they are intended to shorten the calendar from plant planning to operations by combining NRG experience in the development of energy generation, manufacture of GE Vernova teams and the specialization of the Kiewit ICT unit in engineering, hiring and construction. Kiewit occupies the total number 2 in the Top 400 Enr contractor list and the number 2 of the power segment.
The companies did not reveal the amount of the project’s investment.
“The increasing demand for electricity in part because of [generative AI] And the accumulation of data centers means that we need to form new innovative collaborations to quickly increase the United States dispatching generation, “said Robert Gaudette, executive vice president of business operations and NRG’s wholesale, in a statement.
The first floor of the 1.2 GW team is scheduled to start operating by 2029 with a couple of GE Vernova gas turbines. The others are planned to enter online until 2032.
NRG refused to share specific locations for the initial plants, but said they would be inside the markets of the Texas electric reliability council, which operates the network that covers most of the state, and the PJM interconnection, which covers a region between new jersey, Virginia and Illinois, including all or part of 13 states and Washington, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC,
Several data centers are in different stages of development in these areas, especially parts of Texas, Virginia, Ohio and New Jersey.
NRG calls the model of “replicable and scalable, with the potential of filling a future pipeline of 10 to 15 GW and expanding in other areas of the United States”.
