HR 9340
Ratepayer Protection Act
Summary
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.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Gabe Evans [R-CO-8]
- Cosponsors
- 42
- Policy area
- Energy
- Introduced
- 2026-06-18
- Latest action
- 2026-09-30: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2026-09-30: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
- 2026-09-30: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 57 - 43. Record Vote Number: 254.
- 2026-09-30: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
- 2026-09-29: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
- 2026-09-28: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S5065)