Madison Energy Infrastructure, an EQT portfolio company, has launched a community infrastructure initiative with plans to develop an additional 1 gigawatt of distributed energy capacity by 2028.
The initiative will seek to mobilize up to $2 billion in capital to help meet AI’s growing demand for power and bring distributed energy infrastructure to scale, while creating and delivering benefits for communities. This builds on Madison’s projects already under way with businesses, utilities, data centers and municipalities deploying solar and energy storage solutions.
As AI drives unprecedented electricity demand, gigawatts of new data centers are being developed faster than traditional generation and transmission infrastructure can be built. This is intensifying pressure on an already strained grid. Meanwhile, U.S. communities are looking for solutions that support this historic growth. But while large-scale generation will remain essential, it cannot alone address su
