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HR10322119th CongressWALLET

Data Center Fair Share Act

Sponsored By: Representative Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA-10]

Introduced

Summary

Makes very large electricity users pay the full incremental cost of any grid upgrades needed to serve them. This bill would add a new standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act that requires utilities to recover generation, transmission, and distribution upgrade costs from defined "large-load customers" through rates, upfront contributions, or cost assignment, and it links state adoption to highway funding consequences.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Large customers pay grid upgrades

This bill would make utilities recover the full incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade needed to serve a "large-load" customer. A "large-load" would be a non‑residential site or campus that requests service on or after enactment and has 100 megawatts or more peak demand. Before doing an upgrade, the utility would have to get a contribution in aid of construction that covers the full cost or assign the full cost to a class of large-load customers. The rule would apply even if the large customer later stops buying power from the utility.

Highway funding cut for noncompliant states

If a State does not implement the required PURPA standard, the bill would direct the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 100% of the State's yearly apportioned amount under 23 U.S.C. 104(b). The withholding would begin on the first day of each fiscal year after the first fiscal year beginning after enactment in which the State has not implemented the standard.

States must review large-load rules

The bill would require each State regulatory authority and each nonregulated electric utility to start reviewing the new PURPA standard within 1 year of enactment. They would have to finish the review and make a determination within 2 years of enactment. A State would be exempt for a given utility if it already had implemented a comparable standard or its legislature had already voted on one before enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA-10]

VA • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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