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Environment America analysis finds 60.4 GW of proposed grid-connected gas capacity through 2030

The October 5 analysis uses EIA filings and reports a 44 percent increase from December 2025. These are proposed additions, not built capacity; off-grid data-center plants are excluded.

By Greener Numbers Editorial Team · Published October 7, 2026 · Updated 10/7/2026

Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group published an analysis on October 5, 2026 reporting 60.4 gigawatts of proposed grid-connected U.S. natural-gas generating capacity through the end of 2030. The groups compare that with 41.8 gigawatts in December 2025, an increase of 44 percent.

The analysis uses Energy Information Administration filings. Its footnote explains that the additions beginning in August 2026 appear in the July 2026 Electric Power Monthly report, published in September. The publication date of the analysis is not the date every proposed project was announced.

Texas accounts for 20,047.8 megawatts, or 33.2 percent of proposed additions. Louisiana follows at 6.6 gigawatts, Pennsylvania at 4.4, Oklahoma at 3.0 and Mississippi at 2.6. The groups say those five states account for 61 percent of planned gas additions.

These figures describe developer plans, not capacity already operating or a guarantee that every proposal will be built. The data cover grid-connected plants and exclude gas plants that data centers plan to build off-grid for their own use.

The groups identify growing data-center electricity demand as a major driver. They also report that planned wind additions fell 33.9 percent from December 2025, while solar remains the largest anticipated source of new generating capacity. That comparison concerns planned additions, not a decline in all existing wind generation.

Environment America and Frontier Group argue that the gas expansion risks long-term fossil-fuel dependence. That is the organizations' policy assessment. The filings do not by themselves establish a specific household bill increase, an emissions outcome for each project or a final construction schedule.

Official source: environmentamerica.org ↗