This is the overall statewide trend behind the individual utility price to compare increases: the average Pennsylvania household's total electric bill grew by roughly a fifth between 2024 and 2026.
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Governor Shapiro's Executive Order 2026-05 on AI data center development (GRID standards)
On bills now Statewide, docket Executive Order 2026-05 before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
No residential dollar figure published yet
The filing does not state a typical-bill impact we can verify. We will add one when the commission staff or the consumer advocate publishes it.
Fileddate not published
Hearingheld or waived
DecisionAug 18, 2026
On billsAug 18, 2026
Governor Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, 2026, requiring large AI data center developers in Pennsylvania to sign a binding consent order agreeing to a set of standards the administration calls GRID. The order requires developers to bring and pay for their own power rather than shifting costs to households, to accept being cut off first during a grid emergency, and to show a real community benefit plan, and it blocks the state environmental agency from reviewing a data center's permits until the local community has signed off. The order also directs the state to build a public tracker of data center permit applications.
What it means for your bill: The order is meant to keep new data centers from pushing their power costs onto residential electric bills by requiring developers to pay for all of their own electricity.
- Status
- On bills now
- Utility
- Statewide
- Commission
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- Docket
- Executive Order 2026-05
- Decided
- August 18, 2026
- On bills from
- August 18, 2026
- Data center linked
- Yes. The filing ties part of the cost or the tariff design to data center load.
- Last checked
- August 29, 2026
Sources
- Gov. Shapiro Signs Executive Order Requiring A.I. Data Center Developers To Sign Consent Order Binding Them To Comply With GRID Principals, PA Environment Digest, 2026-08-18
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Other Statewide matters
This does not change anyone's electric rate directly, but it is meant to stop the cost of new substations and power lines built for data centers from being added to everyone else's bill.
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