2025 bills / S.B. 227
S.B. 227 Electricity Supply Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill creates alternative ways for electric utilities to serve customers with very large power needs, such as large data centers, and exempts that service from some standard rate regulation while keeping safety and reliability standards. It requires the Public Service Commission to set a flexible rate for large loads, set rules for how transmission costs are split between large customers and regular customers, and review the program periodically with reports to the Legislature.
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Official description
- defines terms
- establishes alternative processes for providing electric service to customers with large electrical loads
- exempts service provided under this chapter from certain rate regulation requirements while maintaining safety and reliability standards
- creates procedures for submitting, evaluating, and contracting for large-scale electrical service requests
- establishes requirements for qualified electric utilities and large-scale generation providers serving large load customers
- creates accounting and operational transparency requirements to protect retail customers
- establishes a framework for closed private generation systems and connected generation systems
- requires the Public Service Commission (commission) to establish a large load flexible tariff
- directs the commission to establish rules for allocating transmission costs between large load customers and retail customers
- requires the commission to conduct periodic reviews of the program and report to the Legislature
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 227 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 227 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 1 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how