Virginia Led. Now New Jersey and Illinois Want Hyperscalers to Pay the Grid Bill.

Virginia's three-bill package has spawned copycats: New Jersey's S-680 and Illinois' POWER Act both run on the same cost-internalization logic, and JLARC's projection of $14 to $37 monthly residential rate increases by 2040 is the number Trenton and Springfield legislators are citing. Developers who've treated Virginia as a one-state outlier now face a regional framework taking shape across PJM in real time.