Bill > LB1010

This bill, titled the Large Load Customer Regulation Act, introduces new regulations for large electricity consumers, defines "large load customer" as one requesting an interconnection with a total load exceeding twenty megawatts, and establishes requirements for public power suppliers to create standards for these customers that balance business development with preventing stranded infrastructure costs and maintaining system reliability. These standards include requiring customers to disclose information about other similar service requests and any onsite backup generating facilities, paying study fees of $50,000 or $1,000 per megawatt, demonstrating site control, and meeting financial commitment requirements for necessary infrastructure. Public power suppliers are also authorized to establish rates and charges that fairly allocate costs and mitigate risks, and they can impose additional service requirements. The bill also allows public power suppliers to use eminent domain for energy storage facilities, grants electric cooperatives the power to store electric energy, and modifies provisions related to cryptocurrency mining operations and data centers by defining "data center" and imposing requirements on their electricity and water usage, reporting, and decommissioning costs, while also establishing a nameplate capacity tax for energy storage resources and exempting certain depreciable tangible personal property used in energy storage from property taxes.