The federal bill that would make a 100 megawatt customer pay for its own wires
H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, would add a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act requiring that rates charged a large-load customer recover from that customer the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission or distribution upgrade needed to serve it, and keep recovering it if the customer walks away. A large-load customer is a non-residential consumer with aggregate peak demand of 100 megawatts or more at one site or campus, running information technology infrastructure for data storage and computation, which is a data center described without the phrase. State regulators would get one year from enactment to begin considering it and two to decide. A state is excused if, before enactment, it implemented a comparable standard, conducted a proceeding on one, or its legislature voted on one. Alaska's Senate passed SB 250, a comparable cost-allocation bill, on May 16th, and the House never voted. Whether one chamber satisfies the words the State legislature has voted is unresolved, and it decides whether Alaska is already excused.
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There is no comment room on a bill. The route is the congressional delegation, and after enactment it becomes a proceeding at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, which is a room with a docket and a public record. The bill sits on the Union Calendar at number 713, which makes it eligible for floor action and not scheduled for it, and neither published House schedule listed it on September 13th. Nothing is said here about Alaska's delegation, because the cosponsor list could not be read.
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2026-09-13 Tracked. The threshold is aggregate peak demand, which is power, so a project describing its output in megawatts of generation is not automatically above or below the line. The Alaska question is the third exemption prong. SB 250 passed the Senate on May 16th per Davis Wright Tremaine, crossed over the same day per BillTrack50, then died in House Community and Regional Affairs after a May 18th hearing. The second prong, a proceeding by the state commission alone, is unknown here because that docket search refuses an automated read.
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What is The federal bill that would make a 100 megawatt customer pay for its own wires?
H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, would add a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act requiring that rates charged a large-load customer recover from that customer the...
Who decides The federal bill that would make a 100 megawatt customer pay for its own wires?
U.S. House of Representatives, then the Senate and the President, and after that every state regulatory authority including the Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Can I comment on The federal bill that would make a 100 megawatt customer pay for its own wires?
There is no comment room on a bill. The route is the congressional delegation, and after enactment it becomes a proceeding at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, which is a room with a docket and a public record. The bill sits on the Union Calendar at number...
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It is pending a decision. Tracked. The threshold is aggregate peak demand, which is power, so a project describing its output in megawatts of generation is not automatically above or below the...
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Tracked. The threshold is aggregate peak demand, which is power, so a project describing its output in megawatts of generation is not automatically above or below the...
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A legislation, decided by U.S. House of Representatives, then the Senate and the President, and after that every state regulatory authority including the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
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Tracked since September 13th, today. The earliest date on its record is July 21st.
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U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo, reported bill text, U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Davis Wright Tremaine, Energy and Environmental Law Blog, BillTrack50, Alaska SB 250. Every one is listed with its date on the decision page.
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