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Rep. Garner introduces RS-32620 to bar passing large-grid upgrade costs to ratepayers
Summary
Representative Dan Garner introduced RS-32620, described as a ratepayer-protection measure that would require very large electricity users (10 megawatts or more) to pay infrastructure and generation costs so those costs cannot be passed to utility ratepayers; the committee voted to introduce the RS by voice vote.
Representative Dan Garner introduced RS-32620 to the House State Affairs Committee as a "rate payer protection" measure that would require large power users to pay for the infrastructure or generation necessary to serve their load rather than passing those costs onto other utility customers.
Garner described the threshold in the RS as 10 megawatts and said that an entity using that level of power would be required to pay for any infrastructure or power generation needed to provide electricity to them, and that those costs could not be passed on to ratepayers.
A motion to introduce RS-32620 was made and the committee approved introduction by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
