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Senators advance bill to shield ratepayers from costs tied to large data‑center grid upgrades
Summary
SB 57 would direct the Public Utilities Commission to establish tariffs and conditions to ensure that transmission and interconnection costs for large, high‑draw customers (including data centers) do not shift to nonparticipating ratepayers and could allow the CPUC to set clean‑energy procurement expectations for such customers.
Senator Padilla introduced SB 57, the Ratepayer and Technological Innovation Protection Act, aimed at ensuring large, high‑demand customers such as data centers pay their share of grid interconnection and upgrade costs and do not produce stranded investments that shift costs to other ratepayers.
Padilla described data centers and other heavy loads as unique customers: "large data centers are transmission level customers with loads that can range from 10 megawatts to up to 800 megawatts with…
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