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Senate passes bill letting competitive contracts for very large electric loads while directing PSC to allocate transmission costs
Summary
The Utah Senate approved changes to allow competitive contracting for new electric loads over 50 megawatts in Rocky Mountain Power territory and directed the Public Service Commission to decide how transmission upgrade costs are allocated between new large customers and existing ratepayers.
The Utah Senate on Monday approved second-substitute Senate Bill 132, changing how very large electric customers — such as data centers and AI facilities — may be served and how the costs of transmission upgrades will be allocated.
Sponsor Senator Kevin Sandle said the bill “is a culmination of months of work,” and described it as a response to an “exponential increase in demand” from companies seeking to site very large loads in the state. The measure allows loads over 50 megawatts to be served in a competitive contracting space rather than solely under the state’s traditional regulated monopoly model in Rocky Mountain Power’s…
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