Kyuden to Operate Homer City's 4.4 GW Gas Plant Under Long-Term Deal

According to the joint release, Kyuden will provide O&M services for safe, environmentally compliant operation and will support the plant's participation in the PJM Interconnection wholesale market. Kyuden and HCG plan to build and train a dedicated on-site team and to put predictive maintenance and regulatory compliance practices in place from the start. Neither company disclosed the contract term, its value or a start date for plant operations.

This is an operator hire, not a power milestone. Naming an operator early gives HCG time to staff and train a crew before turbines arrive. It does not say when the plant will send power to the grid, who will buy it or how much of it will serve data centers.

What is being built

The release describes the project as the Homer City Energy Campus, built on the site of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station and powered by seven GE Vernova 7HA.02 gas turbines. It says the plant will supply around-the-clock power and puts the initial capital investment for power infrastructure and site readiness at $10 billion. HCG says more than 2,000 workers are already on site, with more than 10,000 direct construction-related jobs expected over the life of the project and about 1,000 direct and indirect permanent positions once it is fully operational.

HCG CEO Corey Hessen said a project of this scale "requires an operating partner with deep technical expertise and a proven track record." Kyuden CEO Tony Dabbene said the company was proud to join HCG in building an operational foundation for the project from day one, according to the release. Local station WDAD reported the same agreement on Nov. 12, with the same quotes from both executives.

Gas supply, turbines and campus

In a July 15, 2025 release, Homer City Redevelopment said EQT Corporation would be its exclusive partner to source and supply natural gas for the 4.4 GW facility, under an agreement in principle for up to 665,000 million British thermal units (MMBtu) a day. That release said the gas could come from both the Texas Eastern Transmission and Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage pipeline systems. It also said GE Vernova had finalized a full order for seven 7HA.02 turbines, that Kiewit Power Constructors is leading construction, and that Knighthead Capital Management leads the financing.

The same release described the facility as serving a 3,200-acre AI and high-performance computing data center campus under construction. An agreement in principle is not a signed supply contract, and that release then targeted power in 2027. The Nov. 12 release gives no start date.

For readers tracking gas-fired supply for AI, Homer City is one more project whose delivery depends on turbine slots and pipeline gas. Voltgrid has covered GE Vernova's 122 GW gas turbine queue and BNEF's estimate of data-center gas plant emissions.

What is not confirmed yet

The agreement's term, value and scope beyond the services listed in the release are not public. Neither company named a data-center customer or a commercial operation date in the Nov. 12 announcement. The EQT supply deal was described as an agreement in principle in the July 2025 release, and none of the releases cited here reports a signed contract.