Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Update: Blackstone's Pennsyvania Electricity Project Will Be A Joint Venture With PPL (BX; PPL)

From Reuters, July 15:

Blackstone and US utility PPL to build gas power plants in JV partnership 

Pennsylvania electric and gas utility PPL and Blackstone Infrastructure have formed a joint venture to build natural gas generation stations to power data centers under long-term energy services agreements, the companies said on Tuesday.

"We're excited to leverage the powerful expertise that PPL and Blackstone Infrastructure possess to bring much-needed new dispatchable generation online in Pennsylvania to match new data center load," said PPL President and CEO Vincent Sorgi in a statement....

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PPL will own 51% of the j.v. 

Earlier: Infrastructure: "Blackstone to invest $25 billion in data centers and natural gas plants, COO says" (BX)