Fixing EPA’s Phase I Carbon Rule to Power Growth and Integrate Renewables
The U.S. grid is entering an unprecedented era of growth. After two decades of flat demand, electricity use is now climbing sharply as data centers, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and electrification take off...

US public power sector weighs risks and rewards of data center customers
U.S. public power utilities are seeing explosive electricity demand from data centers, with some requests exceeding the total energy currently used by all of their customers combined...

Large Public Power Utility CEOs Convene in New York to Tackle Surging Electricity Demand
The Large Public Power Council (LPPC) brought CEOs and financial leaders together in New York City this week to confront the defining challenge of our industry: unprecedented growth in electricity demand...

LPPC Signs onto Letter Urging Congress to Reauthorize CISA 2015
The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the largest not-for-profit public power utilities in the U.S., signed onto a letter this week...

Data Centers That Don’t Exist Yet Are Already Haunting the Grid
Data centers are desperate to connect to the U.S. electric grid. What remains fuzzy is how many will ultimately be built and how much electricity they will require...
Meeting AI Power Demand Means More Renewables, Grid Officials Say
Energy developers, investors and providers say solar and wind must be part of an “all-of-the-above” response to surging electricity demand...
RTO Insider Covers LPPC at USEA Virtual Press Briefing
A group of industry insiders looking at ways to meet data centers’ electricity demand found a common thread within their varied opinions: The power sector and its regulators need to be a lot nimbler...

The Outdated Tax Rule Holding Back Big Infrastructure
Demand for electricity is surging across America, driven by explosive growth in data centers, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and electrification. Data centers alone will consume 9% of America’s electricity by 2030, according to the Electric Power Research Institute...

LPPC Supports Bipartisan FEMA Reform Bill to Strengthen Disaster Recovery
LPPC welcomes and supports H.R. 4669, the bipartisan Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025, introduced by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) and Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ).

LPPC Thanks White House & Congress for Supporting Public Power Communities
The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the largest not-for-profit public power utilities in the U.S., today thanked President Trump and Congress for preserving key tools in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that support public power communities across our nation.
