- Developer
- NRG Energy of Houston leads the venture. GE Vernova supplies its 7HA gas turbines and TIC (The Industrial Company), a Kiewit subsidiary, handles engineering, procurement and construction. The partners announced it on February 25, 2025, and NRG says it has secured 5.4 gigawatts of turbine and construction capacity through 2032.
- Tenant
- No Pennsylvania customer has been named. NRG's first deal using the venture's turbines is a 1.2 gigawatt gas plant in Texas for an unnamed global cloud and AI hyperscaler, announced August 4, 2026, with principal terms agreed and final documents and approvals still pending.
- Current stage
- NRG says the venture's nine combined-cycle units are mostly planned for Texas, with an option to place some in a couple of other locations. The first 1.2 gigawatts are now tied to the Texas plant, targeted for late 2029. No Pennsylvania site, permit application or PJM fast-track request from the venture has been reported, and PJM's first three fast-track approvals in October 2026 went to other companies.
- Decision body
- No Pennsylvania board is reviewing anything, since no Pennsylvania site has been named. A plant in the PJM region would need a grid connection through PJM, whose rules are approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. PJM's new fast track, approved by FERC on June 9, 2026, also requires a pledge from the state's siting authority, and a governor can count as one. The Texas plant depends on Texas rules, including Gov. Greg Abbott's August 2026 pause on new data center grid hookups.
- Top issues
- The open questions are whether any of the venture's gas units will come to Pennsylvania at all, who pays for new plants built for data centers, and air emissions from large gas turbines. NRG's model has the data center customer cover the plant through fixed capacity payments; for the Texas plant, NRG says about 95 percent of projected cash flow comes from those payments. Meanwhile, higher PJM capacity prices helped lift NRG's East region earnings by $370 million in the second quarter of 2026.
- Key opponents
- No organized opposition group has been reported, and no Pennsylvania site has been proposed.
- Key supporters
- Support so far comes from the partner companies. NRG's Robert Gaudette said the industry needs "new, innovative partnerships to quickly increase America's dispatchable generation," and executives from GE Vernova and Kiewit backed the venture in the launch announcement.
How we got here
February 25, 2025: NRG, GE Vernova and TIC announce a venture to build four gas plants totaling more than 5 gigawatts for the ERCOT and PJM markets, with the first 1.2 gigawatts using two GE Vernova 7HA turbines and due in 2029. November 2025: NRG puts the program at about 5.4 gigawatts and says it expects to announce a data center deal in 2026; FERC approves NRG's purchase of LS Power's plants on November 14. January 30, 2026: NRG closes the LS Power deal, adding about 13 gigawatts of gas plants. June 9, 2026: FERC approves PJM's fast-track interconnection process. August 4, 2026: NRG announces principal terms with a hyperscaler for a 1.2 gigawatt plant in Texas. October 9, 2026: PJM approves its first three fast-track projects, none from this venture.