Bill > HB544

This bill, known as the Kentucky Ratepayer Protection Act, establishes new regulations for retail electric suppliers providing service to large data centers. Specifically, it prohibits these suppliers from serving a data center customer with a total aggregated contract capacity exceeding 100 megawatts unless the Public Service Commission (PSC) approves a specific tariff or contract that includes minimum requirements like contract durations, early termination fees, load ramp period terms, and financial assurances from the data center. However, data centers that already had an electric service agreement for over 100 megawatts before the bill's effective date are exempt from these new rules, though any expansion beyond their existing load would be subject to them. The PSC is also prohibited from approving any such tariff unless it can be demonstrated that all costs for new infrastructure built solely for the data center are borne by the data center customer, and any shared costs for new facilities are allocated proportionally, ensuring that other customer classes do not face greater adverse impacts on their rates or service than if the data center had not connected to the system.

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https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb544.html