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House subcommittee recommends study of grid impacts from large energy consumers, alters study language
Summary
A House Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee voted to recommend study language for House Bill 1579, adding stakeholders and requiring the study to examine upgrade costs and cost allocation for electrical-grid improvements tied to large energy consumers such as data centers.
The House Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee voted to recommend study language for House Bill 1579 that would direct the Legislative Management to study electrical grid reliability and infrastructure needs related to large energy consumers, including data centers.
The change was recommended to the full committee after subcommittee members agreed to amend the proposed study language to add several stakeholders and to expand the study scope to examine the costs of necessary upgrades and how those costs would be allocated. Representative Olsen said the item should be turned “into a study” rather than advance as a bill now because local rural electric cooperatives and other stakeholders had…
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