Energy Summit: How Much Should Ratepayers Support Grid Buildout?

October 24, 2025--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Anticipating and managing the U.S.'s growing energy challenges was the subject for the "Infrastructure, Reliability, and Resilience in Electricity Markets" session at the Ninth Annual Energy Summit in Houston, co-hosted by Baker Botts LLC and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute.

This article is the fourth and final in a series on the Rice Baker Institute Energy Summit. Here, the story is about requiring data centers to provide their own power, and how much of the financial load consumers should bear.