Introducing Halcyon's Large Load Tariff Tracker (LLTT)
U.S. electricity demand is growing again, driven by large loads from things like cloud data centers and cryptocurrency miners. With the largest facilities over 1 gigawatt of load, states and utilities court these large loads to attract tax revenues and well-paying jobs. States like Virginia and Arizona are so successful at this courting process that they have become synonymous with data centers (at least in the circles I keep). Seeing their success, other states and utilities have rolled out special pricing structures - referred to as large load tariffs - to incentivize growth. Large load tariffs are not the trade-related tariffs that we hear about on the news (unless you read Power Magazine and RTO Insider). Rather, large load tariffs are specialized electricity rate structures that determine how much a customer pays for their electricity use, designed for customers whose power demand is significantly higher than that of typical residential, commercial, or small industrial users.* The
Introducing Halcyon's Large Load Tariff Tracker (LLTT) by Alex Klaessig July 17, 2025 Share: U.S. electricity demand is growing again , driven by large loads from things like cloud data centers and cryptocurrency miners. With the largest facilities over 1 gigawatt of load, states and utilities court these large loads to attract tax revenues and well-paying jobs. States like Virginia and Arizona are so successful at this courting process that they have become synonymous with data centers (at least in the circles I keep). Seeing their success, other states and utilities have rolled out special p
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