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Homer City Energy Campus

Homer City Energy Campus

Construction
Confirmed
Retired power plant · inherited interconnection

Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)

Site of the retired 1,884 MW Homer City coal plant, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; behind-the-meter gas-powered AI/HPC data center campus

Capacity
4,400 MW basis: facility total
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
$10.0B
Announced
Apr 2, 2025
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

71.9 /100
71.9/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

78 /100
78/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Infrastructure baseline 70 Homer City Energy Campus No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 Homer City Energy Campus No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure prior use interconnection +8 Homer City Energy Campus Brownfield site — Retired power plant — inherits an existing energized grid interconnection, materially de-risking the scarcest deliverability bottleneck for a new AI/HPC load (§B.2.3).
Regulatory baseline 70 Homer City Energy Campus No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Homer City Energy Campus No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-04-02).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-04-30).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  3. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

  4. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Homer City Redevelopment
Developer
— —
Homer City Redevelopment
Owner
— —
Kiewit Power Constructors
Developer
— —
Kiewit Power Constructors
Epc Contractor
— —
Knighthead Capital Management
Investor
— —
GE Vernova
Equipment Supplier
— —
EQT Corporation
Power Supplier
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Homer City Redevelopment · Jul 15, 2025 · backs: announced date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/post/press-release-homer-city-redevelopment-announces-agreement-in-principle-for-eqt-corporation-to-supp

  2. Business Wire · Apr 2, 2025 · backs: capex usd

    https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250402452555/en/Homer-City-Redevelopment-and-Kiewit-Announce-Countrys-Largest-Natural-Gas-Powered-Data-Center-Campus-to-Support-AI-and-HPC-Demand

  3. GE Vernova · Apr 2, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/homer-city-redevelopment-kiewit-announce-country-largest-natural-gas-powered-data-center-support-ai-hpc-demand

  4. Homer City Redevelopment · backs: expected date

    https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/post/former-homer-city-pa-coal-plant-officially-reopens-as-state-of-the-art-natural-gas-facility

  5. Utility Dive · Apr 3, 2025 · backs: expected date

    https://www.utilitydive.com/news/homer-city-gas-fired-power-station-data-center-firstenergy/744332/

  6. Global Energy Monitor · backs: actual date

    https://www.gem.wiki/Homer_City_Generating_Station

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.95

  2. · Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70

  3. · thenextweb.com · relevance 0.70

  4. · Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.90

  5. · Utility Dive · relevance 0.85

  6. · Business Wire · relevance 0.95

  7. · GE Vernova · relevance 0.90

  8. Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.85

  9. Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.00