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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: manual

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. · Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.90

  2. · Utility Dive · relevance 0.85

  3. · Business Wire · relevance 0.95

  4. · GE Vernova · relevance 0.90

  5. Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.85

  6. Homer City Redevelopment · relevance 0.00