POWER & REGULATION
Data-center load-growth limits
Other
Under Review
Overview
Grant PUD imposed customer-specific limits on future data-center load growth to protect reliability while transmission upgrades are completed. The March 2025 official recap describes the planned limits, and an August 2025 recap confirms that limits had been imposed.
Key Details
Docket Number
Commission action 2025-03-25
Regulatory Body
Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
Filing Date
Current Status
Under Review
Technical Details
Utility:
Grant County PUD
RTO / ISO:
Customer Class
Existing data-center customers; similar limits may extend to other industrial customers whose growth creates reliability risk
Load Threshold
Customer-specific remaining-growth limits are communicated directly to each data-center customer; no uniform public MW threshold was stated.
Contract Term
Interim reliability measure with no fixed public expiration date; limits may be raised as upgrades permit.
Financial Security
Not Applicable — no financial-security term identified.
Exit Fees
Customer-specific remaining-growth limits are communicated directly to each data-center customer; no uniform public MW threshold was stated.
Curtailment Terms
Customer-specific remaining-growth limits are communicated directly to each data-center customer; no uniform public MW threshold was stated.
Cost Allocation Provisions
Customer-specific remaining-growth limits are communicated directly to each data-center customer; no uniform public MW threshold was stated.