Kyuden Energy Partners and Homer City Generation announced a long-term operations-and-maintenance agreement today, according to a company release provided to Energy News Beat. The full wire had not been posted as of this writing. The 4.4-gigawatt campus is under construction in Indiana County, Pa., on the site of a retired coal plant, with first power now aimed at the second quarter of 2028 — not 2027. We have reached out to their CEO for and interview, and are scheduling the appointment.
Today’s news is who will run the plant, not that it has started.
If you pay a power bill in PJM, today’s news is not that a plant flipped a switch. It is that someone has signed on to run it. Kyuden Energy Partners and Homer City Generation announced a long-term operations-and-maintenance agreement today for the planned 4.4-gigawatt Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, Pa., according to a company release provided to Energy News Beat. The release, datelined Aliso Viejo, Calif., says the campus is positioned to become one of the nation’s largest natural gas-fired plants and will create “hundreds of jobs.”
We have not independently retrieved a posted copy of the full wire on Business Wire, PR Newswire, Kyuden’s news page, Kyushu Electric’s 2026 English news list, or Homer City’s site. Contract term, value, and quotes were not in the copy we received. On Nov. 1, WCCS Radio reported Homer City CEO Corey Hessen saying IHI Power Services, now Kyuden Energy Partners, will operate the plant.
The plant is still being built on the site of Pennsylvania’s former largest coal station, which the Energy Information Administration listed at 1,888 megawatts. Homer City Redevelopment says it was permanently decommissioned on July 1, 2023. First power was originally advertised as “by 2027.” Hessen’s 2026 comments, including the WCCS interview, now put it in early 2028, or the second quarter of 2028, with the first two of seven turbines online first. He said operations hiring would most likely begin in January, with about 18 months of training, and called it a $10 billion plant — a company figure.
Who is taking the keys
Kyuden Energy Partners is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyuden International, the overseas investment arm of Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power and its Kyuden Group. It was IHI Power Services until the acquisition closed and the rebrand took effect on July 23, 2026, a close the parent called the group’s first dedicated U.S. operations-and-maintenance investment. Tony Dabbene, CEO since January 2025, stayed on. In a July Orange County Business Journal interview, he said the executive team was remaining in place and that headquarters would stay in Orange County.
As of March 2026, Dabbene said, the company was managing 31 U.S. power plants; OCBJ reported a workforce of more than 500. Homer City, if completed at the 4.4-gigawatt headline, would be a very large addition to that book of work.
A 4.4 GW headline, and a larger permit
The current company and Department of Energy headline is 4.4 gigawatts. It should not be mixed with two others in the record. The April 2025 launch, some of Hessen’s 2026 comments, and an Amazon Web Services planning narrative used 4.5 gigawatts. In the technical review memo for Plan Approval 32-00457A, Pennsylvania DEP summarized the applicant’s stated purpose as providing 4,678 megawatts-electric of dispatchable power — consistent with seven GE Vernova 7HA.02 combined-cycle turbines plus ten Mitsubishi Power FT8 simple-cycle peakers, each 25 megawatts-electric, authorized in the air permit and often left out of marketing copy.
Kiewit is the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor. A first-steel release said more than $1 billion had been funded into construction as of early April 2026; the April 2025 launch projected more than $10 billion for power infrastructure and site readiness — company figures. A September 2026 release put the on-site workforce at more than 1,800, including members of nine unions. An Oct. 20 company release said Kiewit had built “a workforce of more than 2,000.” Those construction counts are not the “hundreds of jobs” in today’s subhead, which most plausibly refers to eventual operating staff.
Most of the power is meant for data centers. Not all of it.
The first vertical building on the site is a gas-insulated switchgear facility that, the company says, will connect the campus to the PJM grid. The retired coal plant had ties to both PJM and NYISO. In March 2026, Axios Pittsburgh reported that Hessen told a Pittsburgh Technology Council event the plant would initially provide 4,500 megawatts, including about 3,700 megawatts for data centers. That, Axios noted, leaves about 700 to 800 megawatts for the grid. Hessen told Axios the company had been “thoughtful all along about building a facility that is bigger than the computing need.” That split is not locked.
Amazon Web Services is the anticipated end user in Indiana County planning documents, not a confirmed, fully approved tenant. The Indiana County Office of Planning & Development says the county planning commission on Oct. 14 accepted AWS’s preliminary land-development plan for a 90-day review through Jan. 12, 2027. Acceptance is not approval. An Aug. 27 AWS project narrative describes about 2,200 acres and 39 data-center buildings, and says electricity for the campus “will be acquired from FirstEnergy, supported by” the generating facility. Amazon’s pledged Pennsylvania investment is a statewide figure and should not be assigned to this site alone.
EQT is the announced exclusive partner to source and supply gas, at up to 665,000 million British thermal units a day, or roughly 0.64 billion cubic feet a day at EIA’s 2025 average heat content of about 1,037 Btu per cubic foot (about 0.665 Bcf/d at a 1,000 Btu rule of thumb), under a July 15, 2025, agreement in principle. We have not found a public announcement of a signed definitive contract. A new roughly six-mile, 30-inch lateral, described in a Nov. 6 DOE letter as the Homer City Generation Pipeline, has been added to a proposed federal financing request.
What this means for consumers and investors
Homer City’s consumer argument is that a large new in-basin gas plant, built mostly for data-center load, can serve that demand on site. Axios summarized Hessen’s pitch as providing “all the data center power on-site without sucking from ratepayers, and then some.” PJM’s 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction cleared at the FERC-approved cap of $333.44 per megawatt-day — $16.4 billion, and 6,623 megawatts short of the reliability requirement. Nearly 5,100 megawatts of the peak-forecast increase was attributed to data-center demand. PJM’s July 14, 2026, release shows the 2028/2029 auction also cleared at the FERC-approved cap, $325 per megawatt-day (UCAP), 2.5% below the prior cap, with $16.4 billion in cleared value and a 6,831-megawatt shortfall against the reliability requirement. Former Pennsylvania consumer advocate Patrick Cicero, speaking to reporters before that result was announced, told Pennsylvania Capital-Star that recent capacity costs had cost the average Pennsylvania residential consumer “somewhere in the neighborhood of $220 to $320 per year” — an advocate’s estimate, not a fact about this plant.
There is no sourced, plant-specific effect on household bills, and we are not inventing one. Whether this plant helps, hurts, or is roughly a wash for ratepayers will depend on the grid-versus-campus split, how FirstEnergy and PJM settlement work, and whether network upgrades still land in general rates.
Investors should read today’s announcement as an operations milestone, not a financing close. GE Vernova reported on Oct. 28 a $197 billion company backlog, with 122 gigawatts of gas-power equipment backlog and slot reservations. Homer City locked seven HA machines early, in a July 2025 order. Kyuden’s parent called the IPSC purchase its first dedicated U.S. O&M bet; the price was not disclosed. For Marcellus producers, roughly 0.64 Bcf/d at EIA’s 2025 average heat content (about 0.665 at a 1,000 Btu rule of thumb) would be a meaningful new firm demand sink if the EQT arrangement is finalized and the plant runs near that volume.
The caveats that still sit on the table
Pennsylvania DEP issued the air plan approval on Nov. 18, 2025. It is under appeal. The Environmental Hearing Board has scheduled a two-day hearing in the Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and Sierra Club case, docket 2025-135-L, for Dec. 8 and 9, 2026, in Pittsburgh, at 9:30 a.m. Construction has continued while the appeals are pending. A second, youth-appellants case was filed the same day; we found no hearing date on the official schedule and are not assigning one.
The turbines are marketed as “hydrogen-enabled.” In the same permit record, the best-available-control-technology analysis summarized in DEP’s technical review memo deemed co-firing with low-GHG hydrogen “technically infeasible for this project due to a lack of commercial availability and necessary infrastructure” today. The plan approval caps facility-wide greenhouse-gas emissions at 17,551,454 tons a year of carbon-dioxide equivalent, on a 12-month rolling basis. A company comparison of 60 to 65 percent lower CO2 per megawatt-hour versus the coal plant is a company claim, not an audit.
DOE’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing has completed environmental review, including a Nov. 6 supplemental review after the pipeline was added, for a proposed Title XVII loan guarantee to Homer City Generation, L.P., with Knighthead as sponsor. The reviews are not a close. The amount is undisclosed. Future data centers remain outside that federal scope.
Jobs should stay in separate buckets. Construction, plant operations, and data-center operations are not the same number. AWS has projected 1,500 to 2,000 permanent operations jobs at a full build-out that runs into 2036 if the plan is approved. Homer City has footnoted about 1,000 permanent direct and indirect positions for the plant plus campus. Those figures may overlap and should not be added together, or to the “hundreds” in today’s subhead.
Coming up on Energy News Beat: Stu Turley will interview Kyuden Energy Partners CEO Tony Dabbene. No date is set.
Stu’s Take
| Today’s news is an operations contract, not first power and not a loan close. Kyuden will run a 4.4-gigawatt gas campus on the site of a 1,888-megawatt coal plant that closed in 2023. First power is aimed at the second quarter of 2028, with hiring likely in January. The consumer pitch is that most of the plant serves data-center load and that about 700 to 800 megawatts could go to the grid, by Axios’s math from Hessen’s March figures. PJM capacity prices have already been at the cap — $333.44 per megawatt-day for 2027/2028. None of that is a sourced household-bill effect from this plant. The air permit is under appeal, with a hearing Dec. 8 and 9. EQT’s gas volume is still an agreement in principle. AWS is an anticipated user in a plan under review, not an approved tenant. I want to ask Tony Dabbene about term, scope, and how many people he will hire in Indiana County.
We will keep you posted on the CEO’s interview with me. |
Appendix A | Linked source list (accessed Nov. 11, 2026 CST)
Selected excerpts in Appendix B are short evidence pointers, not full reproductions. An access gap is not proof a document does not exist. Announcement facts attributed to today’s release are drawn from a company copy provided to Energy News Beat; the full wire had not been independently retrieved as of this writing.
- Company release provided to Energy News Beat, datelined Aliso Viejo, Calif., Nov. 11, 2026, announcing a long-term O&M agreement for the 4.4 GW Homer City Energy Campus. Full wire not independently retrieved as of this writing; quotes, contract term, and contract value were not in the copy received. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST.
- WCCS Radio, “Hessen: Hiring to Begin Soon for Operation of New Power Plant,” Nov. 1, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.wccsradio.com/2026/11/01/hessen-hiring-to-begin-soon-for-operation-of-new-power-plant/
- Kyuden Energy Partners, company site and About/leadership page. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://kyudenenergypartners.com/about-us/
- Kyuden Energy Partners news archive (no Nov. 11, 2026, post at time of this check). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://kyudenenergypartners.com/category/news/
- Kyuden Energy Partners / Business Wire, Tony Dabbene appointed CEO, Jan. 8, 2025. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://kyudenenergypartners.com/2025/01/08/ihi-power-services-corp-americas-appoints-tony-dabbene-as-ceo/
- Kyuden Energy Partners copy of the Business Wire rebrand release (company page dated June 23, 2026; official close is July 23, 2026). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://kyudenenergypartners.com/2026/06/23/ihi-power-services-corp-rebrands-as-kyuden-energy-partners-following-acquisition-by-japans-kyuden-group/
- Business Wire, “IHI Power Services Corp. Rebrands as Kyuden Energy Partners Following Acquisition by Japan’s Kyuden Group,” ID 20260723902338, July 23, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260723902338/en/IHI-Power-Services-Corp.-Rebrands-as-Kyuden-Energy-Partners-Following-Acquisition-by-Japans-Kyuden-Group
- Kyushu Electric Power, Japanese press release on the IPSC acquisition close and rebrand, July 23, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.kyuden.co.jp/press/2026/h260723-1.html
- Kyushu Electric Power, English version of the July 23, 2026, close announcement. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.kyuden.co.jp/english/company/news/2026/h260723-1.html
- Kyushu Electric Power, FY2026 English news list (no Homer City O&M item as of this check; latest U.S. items dated Sept. 2, 2026). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.kyuden.co.jp/english/company/news/2026.html
- Kyuden International, project/partners page. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.kyuden-intl.co.jp/en/business/partners.html
- Orange County Business Journal, “Kyuden Energy Sees Increasing Demand for Electricity,” Aug. 3, 2026 (Dabbene interview July 27, 2026). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.ocbj.com/oc-homepage/kyuden-energy-sees-increasing-demand-for-electricity/
- Homer City Redevelopment, project overview and homepage. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/project-overview
- Homer City Redevelopment, FAQ (partly stale on the first-power date). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/faq
- Business Wire, Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit launch announcement, April 2, 2025 (original “up to 4.5 GW” and “by 2027” language). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — 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
- Utility Dive, April 3, 2025, launch coverage, including FirstEnergy interconnection context. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.utilitydive.com/news/homer-city-gas-fired-power-station-data-center-firstenergy/744332/
- Homer City Redevelopment, EQT agreement-in-principle release, July 15, 2025. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/post/press-release-homer-city-redevelopment-announces-agreement-in-principle-for-eqt-corporation-to-supp
- Homer City Redevelopment, first-steel / GIS building release, April 1, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/post/homer-city-redevelopment-crosses-the-first-steel-threshold
- Business Wire, “Homer City Redevelopment Reaches 1,000 Workers on Construction Site,” March 26, 2026 (early-2028 first-power language in this release). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260326477595/en/Homer-City-Redevelopment-Reaches-1000-Workers-on-Construction-Site
- Axios Pittsburgh, “Homer City power plant, grid, data centers,” March 31, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.axios.com/local/pittsburgh/2026/03/31/homer-city-power-plant-grid-data-centers-pennsylvania
- Business Wire, workforce exceeds 1,800, Sept. 4, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260904657281/en/Homer-City-Energy-Campus-Workforce-Grows-to-More-Than-1800-Workers-Including-Members-of-9-Building-and-Construction-Trade-Unions
- Homer City Generation, Kiewit one-year anniversary, Oct. 20, 2026 (workforce of more than 2,000; latest dated item listed on the HCR homepage at the time of this check). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.homercityredevelopment.com/post/homer-city-generation-highlights-kiewit-s-one-year-anniversary-of-being-active-on-site-as-engineerin
- Lehigh Daily, permit/appeal context around the 1,800-worker milestone, Sept. 7, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://lehighdaily.com/homer-citys-coal-site-now-has-1800-workers-as-courts-weigh-the-data-center-plants-permit/
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, “The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania will close by July 2023,” June 5, 2023 (edited June 6) (1,888 MW nameplate; EIA did not itself record a July 1, 2023, decommission date). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56700
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, technical review memo for Plan Approval 32-00457A, signed Nov. 18, 2025. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://files.dep.state.pa.us/RegionalResources/NWRO/NWROPortalFiles/Homer-City/Air/Final-AQ-Plan-Approval/Tech%20Review%20Memo%20Signed%2020251118.pdf
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Final Plan Approval 32-00457A, Nov. 18, 2025. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://files.dep.state.pa.us/RegionalResources/NWRO/NWROPortalFiles/Homer-City/Air/Final-AQ-Plan-Approval/FINAL%20PLAN%20APPROVAL%2032-00457A.pdf
- Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, hearing schedule (docket 2025-135-L, Dec. 8–9, 2026, Pittsburgh). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://ehb.pa.gov/hearing-schedule
- WTAE, coverage of the May 12, 2026, DEP public hearing on the proposed ~5.8-mile, 30-inch gas lateral. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.wtae.com/article/proposed-gas-distribution-pipeline-project-indiana-county-pushback/71287815
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Dominance Financing, environmental-review letter for the main generating facility, April 30, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2026-11/Homer%20City%20Generation-Main%20Power%20Generation%20Site.pdf
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Dominance Financing, supplemental environmental-review letter after the Homer City Generation Pipeline was added to the financing request, Nov. 6, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2026-11/Homer%20City-Lateral%20Pipeline.pdf
- Amazon Web Services / Amazon Data Services, Inc., PIT100 project narrative, dated Aug. 27, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2140/files/2026/09/pit100-project-narrative-082726.pdf
- Indiana County Office of Planning & Development, AWS PIT100 preliminary-plan page (commission accepted the plan on Oct. 14, 2026, “for further review and consideration”; “The anticipated end-user is Amazon Web Services (AWS).”). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.icopd.org/
- Data Center Feed, coverage of the Indiana County Planning Commission’s Oct. 14, 2026, acceptance of the AWS preliminary plan for a 90-day review (site describes the item as AI-drafted; kept as secondary to the ICOPD page). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://datacenterfeed.com/article/aws-homer-city-pit100-indiana-county-planning-commission-review-october-2026
- Data Center Dynamics, earlier report of a 36-building campus (superseded in scope by the Aug. 27 narrative’s 39 buildings / ~2,200 acres). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-plans-36-building-data-center-campus-in-indiana-county-pennsylvania/
- PJM Interconnection, official 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction results release, Dec. 17, 2025. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.pjm.com/-/media/DotCom/about-pjm/newsroom/2025-releases/20251217-pjm-auction-procures-134479-mw-of-generation-resources.pdf
- PJM Interconnection, official 2028/2029 Base Residual Auction results release, July 14, 2026 ($325/MW-day UCAP at the cap; $16.4 billion; 6,831 MW short). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.pjm.com/-/media/DotCom/about-pjm/newsroom/2026-releases/20260714-pjm-capacity-auction-procures-138318-mw-of-generation-resources.pdf
- Pennsylvania Capital-Star, “PJM Interconnection electricity price hits cap again in latest auction,” July 14, 2026 (includes the Cicero estimate; secondary to the official PJM 2028/2029 release). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://penncapital-star.com/economy/pjm-interconnection-electricity-price-hits-cap-again-in-latest-auction/
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, Frequently Asked Questions, “What are Ccf, Mcf, Btu, and therms?” (2025 average heat content used for the 0.64 Bcf/d conversion). Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=45&t=8
- GE Vernova, Q3 2026 earnings press release, Oct. 28, 2026. Access date: Nov. 11, 2026, CST. — https://www.gevernova.com/sites/default/files/gev_webcast_pressrelease_10282026.pdf?text=full
Appendix B | Key excerpts
Quotes below are short excerpts from the company release provided to Energy News Beat, official documents, and contemporaneous reporting. They are evidence pointers, not complete documents.
Working release lede, as provided to Energy News Beat: “Kyuden Energy Partners Corporation … and Homer City Generation, L.P. … today announced a long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement for HCG’s Homer City Energy Campus. The planned 4.4-gigawatt facility in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, is positioned to become one of the largest natural gas-fired power plants in the United States.” (Company release provided to ENB, datelined Aliso Viejo, Calif., Nov. 11, 2026; full wire not independently retrieved)
Working release subhead, as provided to Energy News Beat: “4.4 GW Facility Expected to Become One of the Nation’s Largest Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants, Creating Hundreds of Jobs in Western Pennsylvania While Meeting the Region’s Growing Power Demand” (Same provided copy; “hundreds of jobs” is not a precise headcount in the text we received)
Hessen on WCCS, on hiring, first power, and the operator: “Corey Hessen, the CEO of Homer City Generation, said … that the company will begin hiring personnel to operate the gas-fired power plant most likely in January, with the plant coming online and producing electricity in the second quarter of 2028. … IHI Power Services, which last summer became Kyuden Energy Partners Corporation (KEPC), will operate the plant.” (WCCS Radio, Nov. 1, 2026)
Hessen, on building bigger than the computing need: “we have been thoughtful all along about building a facility that is bigger than the computing need” (Axios Pittsburgh, March 31, 2026, quoting Hessen in comments to Axios; Axios separately reported his 4,500/3,700 MW figures from a Pittsburgh Technology Council event and derived about 700–800 MW for the grid)
Axios paraphrase of Hessen’s pitch (not a direct Hessen quote): “all the data center power on-site without sucking from ratepayers, and then some” (Axios Pittsburgh, March 31, 2026; unquoted Axios paraphrase, not a direct Hessen quotation)
DEP technical memo, on project purpose: “4,678 MWe of dispatchable (on-demand) power” (PA DEP technical review memo for Plan Approval 32-00457A, Nov. 18, 2025; the applicant’s stated purpose as summarized by DEP, not the 4.4 GW headline)
DEP technical memo, on hydrogen co-firing: “technically infeasible for this project due to a lack of commercial availability and necessary infrastructure” (PA DEP technical review memo, Nov. 18, 2025, applicant BACT analysis as summarized and accepted by DEP; “today” is outside the quoted finding)
EIA, on the retired coal plant: “The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania” (EIA Today in Energy, June 5, 2023 (edited June 6); nameplate 1,888 MW. Homer City Redevelopment, not EIA, says the plant was permanently decommissioned on July 1, 2023)
AWS PIT100 narrative, on power supply language: “Electrical power for the campus will be acquired from FirstEnergy, supported by the 4.5-gigawatt natural gas power generation facility being constructed by HCR” (AWS project narrative, Aug. 27, 2026; AWS is an anticipated user in a plan under review, not an approved tenant. The 4.5 GW figure in this filing is not the 4.4 GW company/DOE headline.)
EQT announcement, status of the gas deal: “agreement in principle” (Homer City Redevelopment release, July 15, 2025; volume up to 665,000 MMBtu/day, or roughly 0.64 Bcf/d at EIA’s 2025 average heat content of about 1,037 Btu per cubic foot (about 0.665 Bcf/d at a 1,000 Btu rule of thumb). No public definitive-contract announcement was found as of this writing.)
DOE EDF, Nov. 6, 2026, on the proposed loan guarantee: “will continue with environmental due diligence reviews, as needed, to support the development of the loan guarantee agreement” (DOE Office of Energy Dominance Financing supplemental letter, Nov. 6, 2026; assistance is proposed, not closed; amount undisclosed; future data centers remain outside the federal scope)
PJM, 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction: “The price came in at the FERC-approved cap, $333.44/MW-day (UCAP) for the entire PJM footprint” (PJM official release, Dec. 17, 2025; also $16.4 billion and 6,623 MW short of the reliability requirement)
PJM, 2028/2029 Base Residual Auction: “The price came in at the FERC-approved cap, $325/MW-day (UCAP) for the entire PJM footprint, a 2.5% decrease from the 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction cap of $333.44/MW-day” (PJM official release, July 14, 2026; also $16.4 billion and 6,831 MW short of the reliability requirement)
Kyushu Electric, on the U.S. O&M investment: “This transaction marks the Kyuden Group’s first entry into the operation and maintenance (“O&M”) business in the United States.” (Kyushu Electric close announcement, July 23, 2026)
Dabbene, on the executive team after the rebrand: “the entire executive team is remaining in place” (Orange County Business Journal, Aug. 3, 2026, citing a July 27, 2026, interview)
Appendix C | Key data table (as-of dates)
| Metric | Value | As-of / source |
| Today’s announcement | Long-term O&M agreement, Kyuden Energy Partners and Homer City Generation, for the 4.4 GW Homer City Energy Campus | Company release provided to ENB, Nov. 11, 2026; full wire not independently retrieved |
| Contract term / value / named quotes | Not in the copy received; marked TBD | Same provided copy |
| “Hundreds of jobs” | In the provided subhead; not a precise headcount | Same provided copy; most plausibly plant O&M, not construction |
| Retired coal plant nameplate | 1,888 MW | EIA, June 5, 2023 (edited June 6). Homer City Redevelopment says it was permanently decommissioned July 1, 2023 |
| Current company / DOE headline capacity | 4.4 GW | HCR materials; DOE letters April 30 and Nov. 6, 2026; today’s provided lede. Do not merge with the rows below. |
| 4.5 GW / 4,500 MW figure | Used in the April 2025 launch, some 2026 Hessen comments, and the AWS narrative | Launch BW; Axios March 31, 2026; AWS Aug. 27, 2026. A different figure, not a substitute for 4.4 GW. |
| Applicant’s stated purpose, as summarized by DEP | 4,678 MWe of dispatchable (on-demand) power | DEP tech memo, Nov. 18, 2025. Consistent with seven CCGTs plus ten 25 MWe peakers. |
| Permitted simple-cycle peakers | 10 × 25 MWe = 250 MWe | DEP tech memo / Plan Approval 32-00457A |
| First-power target | Early 2028 / Q2 2028; first two of seven turbines first | Hessen 2026 comments, including WCCS Nov. 1, 2026. Supersedes original “by 2027” launch language. |
| Operations hiring / training | Hiring most likely in January; about 18 months of training | Hessen via WCCS, Nov. 1, 2026 |
| Construction workforce | More than 1,800 on site as of Sept. 4, 2026; a workforce of more than 2,000 as of the Oct. 20, 2026, Kiewit anniversary (company counts) | HCG Business Wire, Sept. 4, 2026; HCG/Kiewit release, Oct. 20, 2026 |
| Plant-plus-campus construction jobs (company, ~5 years) | More than 10,000 direct on-site | Company footnote; not an independent payroll count |
| Permanent plant-plus-campus jobs (company) | About 1,000 direct and indirect at full capacity | Company footnote; do not add to the AWS row |
| AWS permanent ops at full build-out | 1,500–2,000 (proposed) | AWS narrative, Aug. 27, 2026; plan under review; may overlap the 1,000 |
| Projected plant / site capital | More than $10 billion | Company figure, April 2025 launch (not the first-steel release) |
| Funded into construction | More than $1 billion | First-steel release, April 1, 2026 (company) |
| EQT supply | Up to 665,000 MMBtu/d, or roughly 0.64 Bcf/d at EIA’s 2025 average heat content of about 1,037 Btu per cubic foot (about 0.665 Bcf/d at a 1,000 Btu rule of thumb); agreement in principle | HCR/EQT release, July 15, 2025; EIA FAQ heat content; not confirmed as a definitive contract |
| Data-center allocation (Hessen, as reported by Axios) | About 3,700 MW | Axios, March 31, 2026, from Hessen at a Pittsburgh Technology Council event, used with a 4,500 MW total; not locked |
| Grid allocation | About 700–800 MW | Axios arithmetic from Hessen’s 4,500/3,700 MW figures. Not locked. |
| AWS plan status | Preliminary land-development plan accepted for 90-day review through Jan. 12, 2027 | Indiana County Office of Planning & Development (primary); Data Center Feed secondary; acceptance is not approval |
| DOE Title XVII assistance | Proposed loan guarantee; environmental reviews complete; amount undisclosed; not closed | DOE EDF letters, April 30 and Nov. 6, 2026 |
| Air plan approval | 32-00457A issued Nov. 18, 2025; under appeal | DEP; EHB docket 2025-135-L hearing Dec. 8–9, 2026, Pittsburgh |
| Facility-wide 12-month rolling CO2e limit | 17,551,454 tpy | DEP Final Plan Approval 32-00457A, Section C (facility-wide limit) |
| NOx / CO netting vs. retired coal baseline | −889.0 tpy NOx; −2,991.7 tpy CO | DEP tech memo; a permitting mechanism, not a bill fact |
| VOC ERCs required before operation | 369.035 tons | DEP tech memo |
| Company CO2 comparison vs. coal | 60–65% lower CO2 per MWh | Company claim; not independently audited here |
| PJM 2027/2028 BRA | $333.44/MW-day UCAP (cap); $16.4B; 6,623 MW short; ~5,100 MW of a 5,250 MW peak-forecast increase attributed to data centers | PJM official release, Dec. 17, 2025 |
| PJM 2028/2029 BRA | $325/MW-day UCAP (cap); $16.4B; 6,831 MW short; 2.5% below the prior cap | Official PJM release, July 14, 2026 |
| Cicero residential add-on estimate | About $220–$320 per year for the average Pennsylvania residential consumer, from recent auctions | Capital-Star, July 14, 2026, citing former PA consumer advocate Patrick Cicero speaking before the 2028/29 result; advocate estimate, not a tariff filing, and not a Homer City bill effect |
| GE Vernova backlog (Q3 2026) | $197 billion total; 122 GW gas equipment backlog and slot reservations; at least 130 GW anticipated by year-end | GE Vernova release, Oct. 28, 2026 |
| Kyuden U.S. fleet (March 2026) | 31 plants (Dabbene); more than 500 employees (OCBJ); more than 40 at HQ | Dabbene said the plant count; OCBJ reported the workforce |
| IPSC / Kyuden purchase price | Undisclosed | Rebrand and parent close materials |
| BEA FDI into U.S. utilities, 2024 | $16 billion | Cited in the rebrand release; sector-wide, not Kyuden’s check size |
Appendix D | Background
The retired coal plant. Homer City Generating Station began operations in 1969 (Units 1 and 2; Unit 3 in 1977). It was Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired plant, about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, with ties to PJM and NYISO. The EIA listed a nameplate of 1,888 MW and described it as “The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania” (June 5, 2023, edited June 6; some later coverage used 1,884 MW or a “2-GW” shorthand; this article uses the EIA figure). The plant was sold for $1.8 billion in 1999, went through a 2017 bankruptcy, and saw its capacity factor fall from 82% in 2005 to 20% in 2022. Homer City Redevelopment says it was permanently decommissioned on July 1, 2023.
The gas-and-data campus. On April 2, 2025, Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit announced a plan to convert the more-than-3,200-acre site into a natural-gas-powered data-center campus. GE Vernova would supply seven 7HA.02 turbines, marketed as hydrogen-enabled, with Kiewit as EPC. Original public figures were “up to 4.5 GW” and first power “by 2027,” with initial capital “projected to exceed $10 billion.” Later company and DOE materials settled on a 4.4 GW headline, and 2026 comments by CEO Corey Hessen moved first power to early 2028 / Q2 2028. Knighthead Capital Management leads financing on behalf of clients. Mid-2024 FERC ownership percentages reported in trade coverage were not refreshed for this article and are not used in the body.
Capacity figures, kept separate. This article uses 4.4 GW as the current company and DOE headline. It reports 4.5 GW / 4,500 MW only as a figure that appears in the April 2025 launch, some 2026 comments, and the AWS narrative. It reports 4,678 MWe of dispatchable (on-demand) power only as the applicant’s stated purpose as summarized by DEP in the technical review memo, consistent with seven combined-cycle units plus ten 25 MWe peakers authorized in the air permit. These figures are not interchangeable and are not added together.
The operator. Kyuden Energy Partners is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyuden International, the overseas investment arm of Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power and its Kyuden Group. IHI Power Services Corp. was acquired by Kyuden International Americas under a stock-purchase agreement announced in March 2026. The close and rebrand to Kyuden Energy Partners Corporation took effect on July 23, 2026 (the company’s own news post is dated June 23, 2026; that is treated as a CMS/date error, and the official close is July 23). Tony Dabbene has been CEO since January 2025 and remained in the role after the close. An unverified “23,000 megawatts” fleet figure that has appeared in marketing posts is not used.
Air permit and appeals. PA DEP issued Plan Approval 32-00457A on Nov. 18, 2025. Appeals were filed Dec. 18, 2025. The Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and Sierra Club case is EHB docket 2025-135-L, with a hearing set for Dec. 8–9, 2026, 9:30 a.m., in Pittsburgh. A separate youth-appellants case was filed the same day; a hearing date for that docket was not on the official schedule retrieved for this article. Construction has continued while the appeals are pending. The permit record nets the project out of PSD for NOx and CO against the retired coal baseline and requires 369.035 tons of VOC emission-reduction credits before operation. The best-available-control-technology analysis summarized in DEP’s technical review memo deemed co-firing with low-GHG hydrogen “technically infeasible for this project due to a lack of commercial availability and necessary infrastructure” today. The Final Plan Approval, Section C, sets a facility-wide 12-month rolling greenhouse-gas limit of 17,551,454 tons a year of carbon-dioxide equivalent.
Proposed DOE assistance. The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing is considering Title XVII assistance (a loan or loan guarantee) to Homer City Generation, L.P., with Knighthead as sponsor. An April 30, 2026, letter completed environmental review for the generating facility; data centers and, at that time, the lateral pipelines were outside the financing scope. A Nov. 6, 2026, letter completed a supplemental review after the applicant added the Homer City Generation Pipeline to the request. Future hyperscale data centers remain outside the proposed federal assistance. The amount is undisclosed. The loan has not been announced as closed.
Gas supply and the lateral. The July 15, 2025, EQT release is an agreement in principle for exclusive sourcing and supply of up to 665,000 MMBtu/day, or roughly 0.64 billion cubic feet a day at EIA’s 2025 average heat content of about 1,037 Btu per cubic foot (about 0.665 Bcf/d at a 1,000 Btu rule of thumb), from the Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO) and Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage (EGTS) systems, which are Enbridge systems. No public definitive-contract announcement was found. No current NRG or Williams gas-supply agreement for the new campus was found; NRG historically operated the coal plant. The new lateral is described as about six miles of 30-inch pipe. A May 12, 2026, DEP public hearing, covered by WTAE, drew local opposition. This article does not treat the pipeline as fully permitted in all respects.
AWS and local planning. AWS / Amazon Data Services, Inc. is the anticipated end user in county planning documents, not an approved tenant. Prefer the Aug. 27, 2026, narrative (39 buildings, about 2,200 acres) over earlier trade reports of 36 buildings on 1,100 acres. The Indiana County Office of Planning & Development says the Planning Commission accepted the preliminary plan on Oct. 14, 2026, “for further review and consideration,” through Jan. 12, 2027. A Planning Commission meeting has been listed for Nov. 18, 2026; this article does not treat that meeting as an outcome. HCR’s public FAQ has spoken of “multiple large data center customers” and does not name AWS.
