LPPC Winter CEO Meeting

LPPC member-utility CEOs recently convened at our Winter Meeting to focus on how to invest for major load growth while keeping reliability and affordability front and center.

CEOs discussed findings from LPPC’s 2025 Capital Investment and Large-Load Survey, which project that members may need to interconnect 58 GW of generation and could represent more than a third of all data center interconnections by 2030.

President Tom Falcone also shared LPPC’s report, Private Use: Modernizing Outdated Treasury Regulations (link), which explains how current private business use rules can constrain public power’s ability to responsibly commit to long-term infrastructure investments for large-load customers while protecting affordability for all customers.

Guest speakers Rachel Buckley and Luke Beckett of E-Source discussed electrification of transportation, supply chains, and market trends. Christopher Matos of Google shared a hyperscaler’s perspective on sustaining cloud computing growth and investment in AI while supporting stable grid interconnections, approaches to co-located generation and carbon-free resources.

The meeting concluded with a CEO roundtable covering federal permitting reform for generation and transmission, Treasury’s private business use regulations, nuclear siting and zero-emission tax credits, and resource adequacy amid large-load growth and electrification.

LPPC also thanked outgoing Task Force Chairs Nathan Reese (Grand River Dam Authority), John Thurber (Omaha Public Power District), and Timothy Pospisil (Nebraska Public Power District) for their leadership and service supporting LPPC’s work on behalf of public power.

Next step: delivering progress on LPPC’s 2026 policy priorities for the 30M+ customers we serve.