Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs

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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/pge-gets-approval-charge-data-centers-larger-share-future-growth-costs/283-a3ae3f39-8d9b-4590-9e6a-b92893a3ff8a

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The commission also opted to maintain a provision that allows PGE to enter into special contracts with individual large customers who want to cover part of the cost of new infrastructure or clean energy resource installation up front in order to get the new equipment up and running faster, according to PGE’s news release.

This smells like a PR move.

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Archived version: archive.is/gwneF

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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Blue state.

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