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AEP Ohio Urges PUCO To Reject Proposed Data Center Joint Stipulation
While parties file testimony in support of joint data center stipulation and recommendation, AEP Ohio opposes proposal from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Suppliers and other “electricity-intensive” customers interconnection proposal.
View filed testimony in support of joint stipulation here.
In a press release, AEP Ohio said “[i]t’s unprecedented to present a ‘settlement’ to the [Public Utilities Commission of Ohio] that isn’t supported by the PUCO staff or the utility that initially raised the concern,” Marc Reitter, AEP Ohio president and chief operating officer, said in a statement Friday. “The PUCO should reject it.”
As reported previously, the technology companies and others filed what they said was a negotiated settlement to resolve an AEP Ohio data center interconnection proposal at the PUCO. All parties in the docket were part of the negotiations that led to the agreement on the terms for connecting electricity-intensive customers to the grid, according to the filing.
When AEP Ohio filed its proposal in May, the utility said there was about 600 MW of data center load in its service territory in Central Ohio and that it had agreements to connect an additional 4.4 GW of data center load by 2030, which could be handled by the region’s transmission system.
Joint Stipulation and Recommendation (10/10/2024)
24-508-EL-ATA (Opened 05/13/2024)
In the Matter of the Application of Ohio Power Company for New Tariffs Related to Data Centers and Mobile Data Centers
