SRE · News · 20260806N

Data Center / Load Growth

SEMPRA · 2026-08-06 · Importance 46 · Surprise 42

Oncor is experiencing unprecedented Texas electricity-demand growth from population increases, data centers, and industrial customers. The utility is expanding transmission lines and evaluating a large pipeline of new service requests, including nearly 300 GW of load requests and 44 GW of large-load requests expected to qualify. Management said durable growth depends on coordinating new load with generation construction, while the pipeline creates multi-year demand for grid infrastructure.

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