Requires electric utilities to charge large data centers the full cost of the grid upgrades needed to serve them, and to collect financial assurances from those customers before building the upgrades.

• Requires rates for large-load customers to recover the full incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade needed to serve them, including if the customer later leaves the utility.
• Requires utilities to collect financial assurances or contributions from a large-load customer before building the upgrades.
• Defines a large-load customer as a nonresidential customer whose facilities mainly run information technology such as data storage and computing, with a combined peak demand of 100 megawatts or more at one site or campus.
• Directs state regulators and nonregulated utilities to begin considering this standard within 1 year of enactment and finish within 2 years, with exceptions for states that already acted on it.

• Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
• Energy Subcommittee

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