Four Delaware lawmakers have joined a regional group focused on tackling rising energy costs linked to large-scale electricity usage.

State Sen. Stephanie Hansen, Sen. Russ Huxtable, Rep. Frank Burns, and Rep. Debra Heffernan have joined the bipartisan PJM State Legislator Collaborative. The group includes lawmakers from 12 other states and Washington, D.C., working to influence energy policy across the PJM Interconnection grid — the system that manages electricity for about 67 million customers in the region.

The move comes as PJM and its members weigh new rules around “large load additions,” a term for major energy consumers such as data centers.

Energy advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, say customers are already seeing higher costs as data center construction

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