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Updated Bill Summary - Bill HR 9340 - Ratepayer Protection Act The Ratepayer Protection Act, introduced in the 119th Congress on June 18, 2026, aims to address issues related to ratepayer rights and protections. The bill, designated as H.R. 9340, focuses on ensuring fair treatment of ratepayers in various contexts. Specific directives or actions within the bill are not detailed in the provided context. For more information and the full text of the bill, refer to the official PDF version available at https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr9340/BILLS-119hr9340ih.pdf.
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Ratepayer Protection Act
The bill requires state utility regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider implementing a standard to hold certain large-load customers responsible for the costs associated with any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade of electric service necessary to serve such customers. A large-load customer means a non-residential electric consumer that enters, or requests to enter, an agreement concerning the sale of electric energy primarily to operate information technology infrastructure and related systems pertaining to data storage and computational applications and services (e.g., data centers) that have a peak electric demand of 100 megawatts or more at a single site or campus.
Specifically, the bill requires states to consider implementing a federal standard for large-load customers. The standard must require rates charged by electric utilities for providing electric service to a large-load customer to be designed to recover from the large-load customer the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade necessary to serve such customer. This rate must include the costs that would be incurred if the large-load customer terminates an agreement with the electric utility pertaining to the sale of electric energy or otherwise ceases the purchase of energy from the electric utility.
Under the standard, an electric utility must require the large-load customer to provide to the utility financial assurances or contributions to cover the cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade that is necessary to serve the load of a large-load customer before the utility makes any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade.
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