Electrical transmission poles and lines in Commerce, Calif., on Aug. 7, 2025. Mike Blake/Reuters
President Donald Trump’s administration and a bipartisan, mid-Atlantic group of governors teamed up on Jan. 16, calling for an emergency power auction and for the nation’s largest grid operator to lower its prices.
In the power auction, companies would bid on 15-year contracts for new electricity generation capacity, creating new power plants to meet energy demands driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
