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Senate approves crypto-mining changes allowing public power districts greater control over infrastructure costs
Summary
After lengthy floor debate, the legislature adopted an amendment to a bill on cryptocurrency mining that requires interruptible rates, reporting and allows public power suppliers to require infrastructure payments from large miners. The measure advanced to enrollment.
Senator Mike Jacobson’s bill to address electricity demand from large cryptocurrency mining operations drew extended floor debate April 3 before the Legislature adopted a committee white-copy amendment and advanced the measure to the enrollment stage.
Why it matters: The amendment responds to concerns from public power districts and communities that large, energy-intensive mining operations can create heavy loads that affect grid reliability, delay industrial projects and change long-term planning for generation and transmission.
What the amendment does: The adopted amendment (AM 6 91) removed a proposed excise tax,…
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