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Senate committee advances SB 886 to limit data‑center cost shifts; industry warns of operational risk
Summary
SB 886 passed from the committee as amended after debate about tariffs, prefunding for clean generation, demand‑response obligations and a 25 MW threshold; supporters said the bill protects ratepayers, while data‑center industry and tech associations argued the CPUC should lead and warned the bill could chill investment.
The committee voted to advance SB 886, a bill authored by Senator Padilla that would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt rate structures and tariffs designed to prevent new large data‑center electricity loads from shifting transmission, distribution and reliability costs to other customers.
Padilla and witnesses described a package of amendments that narrow the bill’s scope to large, new transmission‑service data…
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