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Lawmakers say recent bills aim to bring IPP power into Utah and shield ratepayers from data-center costs
Summary
Representatives at a Washington County Republican Women luncheon described passage of SB132 and HB70 as steps to secure generation and require large data-center loads to pay their own power costs, including bringing the IPP plant capacity into Utah.
State lawmakers attending a Washington County Republican Women luncheon said two measures passed this year to address large new power demands from data centers and to secure generation capacity for Utah.
Representative Colin Jack, who chairs the House Public Utilities and Energy Committee, said SB132 passed unanimously in both chambers and sets a framework for utilities to serve large electricity loads — such as data centers — without shifting costs to ordinary ratepayers. "We passed out of the House unanimously, and then we got unanimous concurrence at the Senate," Jack said, describing SB132 as a mechanism to let big users "pay their own way."
Jack also credited HB70 (referred to in discussion as the bill to keep…
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