Largest US Power Grid faces dire crisis by 2030 if Data Center load growth continues

Filed by Elara Myst

 by Tyler DurdenWednesday, Sep 16, 2026 - 01:50 AMBy 2030, the PJM Interconnection, the largest US electrical grid in the US serving 67 million people in 13 northeast states, is likely to face a “loss of load expectation,” or LOLE -  a key reliability metric used by power system planners to measure the expected number of hours or days per year that a power grid's electricity generation will fail to meet customer demand - between six and 100 times worse than the grid ...