The “Homer City Energy Campus,” a natural gas power plant with a capacity of up to 4.4-4.5GW, is reportedly being built on the 3,200-acre site of a former coal-fired power plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania, USA. The project owner is Homer City Redevelopment (HCR), and Kiewit Power Constructors was awarded the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract. The plant is being developed to supply power for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and other high-performance computing (HPC) demand, with an investment reported at approximately $10 billion. Construction began in April 2026, with commercial operation targeted for 2027.
This project involves redeveloping a former coal-fired power plant site into a large-scale gas-fired combined-cycle power generation campus, with capacity expected to reach up to 4.4-4.5GW. A total of seven gas turbines will be deployed, supplied by GE Vernova, with deliveries reportedly beginning sequentially from 2026. These gas turbines are said to be capable of hydrogen co-firing. Natural gas needed to operate the plant is planned to be procured through an exclusive supply agreement with EQT Corporation.
The generation capacity is up to 4.4-4.5GW, and the investment is reported at approximately $10 billion. The site covers 3,200 acres, and seven gas turbines will be deployed, with sequential deliveries starting in 2026. Construction began in April 2026, with commercial operation targeted for 2027.
This project is understood as a redevelopment effort that leverages the existing transmission and site infrastructure of a former coal-fired plant to meet the rapidly growing power demand of the AI and data center industry. Ordering large quantities of gas turbines and signing an exclusive agreement with a gas supplier reflects a structure aimed at securing both reliability and speed of power supply.
Large combined-cycle gas power projects aimed at meeting AI data center power demand have recently been announced in succession across the United States and other regions, and this Homer City project is reported to rank among the largest such single-campus projects. Reusing the transmission, water, and site infrastructure of a former coal-fired site is regarded as a strategy that can shorten permitting and construction timelines compared with securing an entirely new site, and similar coal-site redevelopment projects may be considered in other regions. For gas turbine manufacturers such as GE Vernova, this project represents a large single-contract order of seven units, which could influence manufacturers’ production capacity and delivery competition amid the recent surge in gas turbine demand driven by AI data centers. For major EPC firms such as Kiewit, securing a large multi-year construction workload through a single project also serves as a reference point for similar order competition among other engineering firms active in the power EPC market, such as Bechtel and Fluor. Structuring an exclusive long-term agreement with a natural gas supplier is a pattern that has appeared frequently in recent data-center-linked power projects, reflecting how fuel supply reliability has become a key variable in project financing.
Whether the delivery schedule for the seven gas turbines, beginning sequentially from 2026, and the 2027 commercial operation target proceed as planned is the first item to confirm. The status of power supply agreements (such as PPAs) with actual data center customers also warrants future confirmation. In addition, how the exclusive gas supply agreement with EQT Corporation will be implemented over the long term, and whether similar coal-site redevelopment projects linking gas power generation with data centers will be announced in other regions, are also cited as matters of industry interest.