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Demand on largest US electric grid forecast close to winter record

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By Tim McLaughlin Jan 30 (Reuters) – Power demand on the largest U.S. electric grid on Friday is expected to peak at about 141 gigawatts, just shy of the all-time winter ‍record on the PJM Interconnection, according to the operator’s latest seven-day forecast. PJM’s performance has been closely watched partly because of its heavy concentration of data centers, whose power consumption is climbing faster than the grid can put more generation onlin…

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