Electricity Load Growth by Utility

US Electricity Demand, 1990 to 2026

Annual US net generation in TWh: four decades of growth, a fifteen-year plateau from 2007, and the record-setting inflection now underway. 2025 and 2026 are EIA projections.

Retail Sales by Customer Class

Who is buying the new kilowatt-hours. Commercial sales, the class that includes most data-center load, caught residential in 2025: 1,493 TWh versus 1,515 TWh. 2025 is preliminary.

Five-Year Peak Demand Forecast Revisions

The same question, asked three years in a row: how much will US peak demand grow over the next five years? Grid planner forecasts compiled by Grid Strategies roughly quintupled between 2022 and 2024.

Data-Center Share of US Electricity

Data centers took about 4.4% of US electricity in 2023, up from 1.9% in 2018. LBNL's 2028 scenarios span 6.7% to 12%, a nearly 2x band that is itself the story: nobody knows how big the wedge gets.
Data-center consumption (TWh)2028 scenario range

Interconnection Queues by Resource

Roughly 2.6 TW of generation and storage waited in US interconnection queues at the end of 2023, more than twice the installed US fleet. Solar and storage dominate; historically most queued capacity never gets built.

Utility-Disclosed Large-Load Pipelines

What roster utilities say is coming, in their own numbers. Definitions differ by company (signed commitments vs interconnection requests vs planning pipelines), so rows are not comparable with each other.
UtilityDisclosed figureWhat the figure counts
Dominion EnergyD~40 GWData-center capacity in substation planning or construction phases across its contracting pipeline (December 2024 disclosure)
American Electric PowerAEP>20 GWSigned customer commitment letters for incremental load by the end of the decade, concentrated in Ohio, Texas, and Indiana
PPL CorporationPPL>10 GWData-center interconnection requests in advanced stages in its Pennsylvania service territory
Southern CompanySO~8 GWGeorgia Power incremental load pipeline through the mid-2030s, most of it large load, per Georgia PSC filings
EntergyETR>2 GWMeta's Richland Parish campus alone; Entergy is building roughly 2.3 GW of new gas generation approved for it in late 2025
WEC Energy GroupWEC>1.8 GWExpected data-center demand in southeast Wisconsin anchored by Microsoft's Mount Pleasant campus
EvergyEVRG>1 GWAnnounced economic development load including Panasonic's De Soto plant, Google, and Meta data-center projects

Where the New Demand Comes From

Modeled decomposition of incremental US consumption by 2028: data centers dominate the near-term wedge, with manufacturing reshoring and the electrification of transport and buildings as the slower second leg.

Commercial Sales Growth in Data-Center States

Delivered commercial kilowatt-hours, 2023 versus 2024. Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia posted the largest jumps among major roster states. Texas commercial was flat; the Texas increase landed in industrial.
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