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Committee debates annual fee and reporting rules for data centers in SB 6,171
Summary
Lawmakers and stakeholders debated whether to impose a per‑kWh annual fee on large energy users (data centers) and how tariffs, reporting and diesel generator limits should be structured; an amendment removing the fee was debated and the committee ultimately advanced the bill with substitutes.
Senate Bill 6,171, described to the committee in staff briefing, would require utilities to make available a tariff or policy for emerging large energy‑use facilities (referred to in testimony as "data centers"), require data‑center owners to publish sustainability reports, and impose an annual per‑kilowatt‑hour fee in the underlying text. Committee staff outlined two proposed substitutes (B and C) and an amendment C1 offered in committee to remove the 0.005 USD per‑kWh fee and the associated emerging large energy use facility account and distributions.
A business representative speaking in committee (identified in the transcript only as Speaker 6) urged…
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