Pins matching tag:"Big Load"

Panasonic Energy's roughly $4 billion lithium-ion cell plant in De Soto, Kansas opened in July 2025 and is expected to draw 110-170 MW (Panasonic's construction executive, 2024) to 200-250 MW at full production (Evergy testimony, 2023) from a new 420 MW Evergy substation; in February 2026 it was nearing 50% of capacity and has since announced a more than $2 billion data-center battery line.

EV Realty opened its flagship San Bernardino, California electric truck charging hub in April 2026 with 76 high-power ports and 9 MW of capacity, supporting CCS up to 500 kW and megawatt (MCS) charging up to 1.2 MW, on grid capacity from Southern California Edison.

Century celebrated restored full production at Mt. Holly on July 27, 2026, following an approximately USD 50 million restart of idle capacity.

Bitdeer bought about 200 acres of land next to its Rockdale, Texas bitcoin mining facility for about 100 million USD on 1 September 2026; the Milam County sites have 563 MW of interconnected grid capacity with plans to reach 742 MW.

Arizona Public Service says TSMC is committed to 12 facilities in north Phoenix, a $265 billion total, and, on its 4 August 2026 call, that TSMC's earlier $165 billion commitment alone was over 1 GW of demand; APS said it would file its integrated resource plan by the end of October 2026 with the full TSMC buildout, but no total MW for the $265 billion is published.

Emirates Global Aluminium (60%) and Century Aluminum (40%) plan a 750,000 tonne-per-year smelter at the Port of Inola, Oklahoma, drawing more than 1,000 MW of continuous grid power from PSO under a contract still being negotiated; the 4 billion USD project faces an Oklahoma Attorney General nuisance suit.

NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (ACWA Power, Air Products, NEOM) finished building its 2.2 GW electrolysis plant in Saudi Arabia and began commissioning in August 2026; it runs on a dedicated 4 GW wind and solar build and targets commercial output in 2027. Total investment is US$8.4 billion (financial close 2023).

Stegra's Boden plant pairs a 700 MW electrolyser with an electric arc furnace for 2.5 million tonnes a year of near-zero-emission steel, backed by 8 TWh of Uniper and Axpo power deals from 2027; a 30 September 2026 review says completion costs are significantly higher and more capital is needed.

Pacific Energy (70%) and Enbridge (30%) are building the 2.1 Mtpa Woodfibre LNG export plant near Squamish, British Columbia, with electric-motor-drive liquefaction on BC Hydro hydropower; cost has risen to US$8.8 billion and service is expected in 2027. The plant's MW load is not published in the sources opened.

AM Green is building a green hydrogen and ammonia complex at Kakinada, India, with about 640 MW of electrolysers in phase 1 and up to 1,950 MW at full build, powered by a 650 MW Gentari PPA and a 2 GW Greenko pumped-storage project; phase 1 mechanical completion is targeted for September-October 2027. Investment is reported at Rs 13,000 crore (Jan 2026 press coverage of the groundbreaking; the Andhra Pradesh government cites USD 10 billion for the whole project); the company itself calls it a multi-billion dollar investment.

Acciona, Green of Africa and AfriquiaGaz are building Africa's largest reverse-osmosis plant at Casablanca, Morocco (300 million m3 a year), run on wind power from 47% of the 360 MW Bir Anzarane wind farm; investment is MAD 6.5 billion (EUR 613 million) with completion scheduled for 2028.

Metinvest Adria (Metinvest and Danieli) plans two electric arc furnaces and 2.7 million tonnes a year of hot-rolling at Piombino, Tuscany, adding about 1.8 TWh a year of Italian power demand; revised cost is about 3.2 billion euros and construction may slip to spring 2027.

ACWA Power's Yanbu project in Saudi Arabia plans up to 4.4 GW of electrolysers powered by 10 GW of wind and solar, with Sinopec and Tecnicas Reunidas on FEED and Topsoe licensing the ammonia; FID is expected in 2026 and operations in 2030. ACWA Power has not published a cost.

Rio Tinto and Contact Energy signed a non-binding letter of intent in May 2026 for a power purchase agreement to restart the idle Line 4 potline at the Tiwai Point smelter in Southland, adding about 50 MW of load and 30,000 tonnes a year, possibly from 2030; no cost has been published.

Micron's up to $100 billion, four-fab Clay, New York campus is projected to use about 16 billion kWh (16 TWh) a year at full buildout, served by National Grid through an expanded Clay substation and eight underground 345 kV lines; first-fab operations are now expected in 2030.

AEP Ohio built the Green Chapel 138 kV station in Licking County, Ohio, for a chip-fab customer requiring 440 MW at first and up to 1,560 MW at peak; Intel's $28 billion Ohio One fab has slipped to 2030-2031 for the first module, so the substation sits unused and AEP Ohio and Meta have asked to use it temporarily.