SB 191 Virginia Senate · 2024 Regular Session

Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.

Summary
Electric utilities; data center demand; allocationof costs among customer classes. Directs the State CorporationCommission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from autility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation,transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demandat the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs theCommission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024,(i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customersand the different classifications of customers of electric utilitiesresults in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonablesubsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend suchallocation of costs.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
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Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2024 Last action Feb 5, 2024
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Feb 5, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Jan 26, 2024
Committee
Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
upper
Jan 26, 2024
Committee
Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rules
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors

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