Gov. DeWine joins bipartisan proposal to address energy supply, data centers

OHIO — Gov. Mike DeWine joined several governors to petition PJM, the regional electricity transmission organization in Ohio, to address supply and demand issues.

“Both across the nation and here in Ohio, energy demand is going up as economic development projects are increasing. As governor, I support a proactive approach to increase energy supply and to protect consumers from rising costs,” said DeWine. “The principles proposed today will encourage new energy supply to be built in Ohio and the region and ensure data centers pay their own way as they expand.”

Here are a few requests governors across the nation have in their statement:

• Providing 15-year price certainty for new energy resources that serve data centers.

• If new data centers do not provide their own energy, the proposal asks PJM to allocate the cost of any new procured energy to the data centers. This will protect costs from being passed on to other customers.

• State public utilities commissions, such as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), will use all available authority to design rate structures to ensure costs incurred by data centers to the larger market are passed on to those data centers and not other customers.

Delware Gov. Matt Meyer (D), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R), Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R), Virginia Gov. Glenn Younkin (R) and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morissey (R) have all joined DeWine to support these requests.

To learn more about the proposal, you can view it here.