Data Center Fair Share Act

This bill would add a federal standard requiring that electricity rates for large-load customers, defined as non-residential users with facilities totaling 100 megawatts or more of peak demand at one site, be set to recover the full added cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrades needed to serve them. Before making such upgrades, a utility would have to either have the customer pay the full cost up front or assign the full cost to a class of large-load customers. State regulators and nonregulated utilities would have to begin considering the standard within 1 year and decide on it within 2 years. The federal government would withhold all of a state's apportioned federal highway funds under section 104(b) in years after the first fiscal year if the state has not implemented the standard.

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Sponsors

• Suhas Subramanyam Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors