26RS HB 544

House Bill 544

Actions

Last Action	02/03/26: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to data centers.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	938
Sponsor	A. Moore
Summary of Original Version	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; prohibit a retail electric supplier from providing service to a data center customer that has a total aggregated customer contract capacity of greater than 100 megawatts unless the Public Service Commission has approved a tariff or contract for the service that includes certain minimum requirements; exempt a data center customer that has an electric service agreement for more than 100 megawatts of existing load prior to the effective date of the Act; prohibit the commission from approving a tariff unless all capital and operating costs for new infrastructure to serve the data center are assigned to the data center customer and that the costs for shared benefits for the new facilities are allocated proportionally and will not have any greater adverse impact on other customer classes than if the data center had not connected to the system; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Ratepayer Protection Act.
Index Headings of Original Version	Boards And Commissions - Public Service Commission, data centers, electric service requirements, approval Energy - Retail electric suppliers, data centers, minimum electric service requirements, allocation of costs Information Technology - Data centers, retail electric suppliers, minimum electric service requirements, allocation of costs Public Utilities - Data centers, retail electric suppliers, minimum electric service requirements, allocation of costs Short Titles And Popular Names - Kentucky Ratepayer Protection Act