State utility regulators must study rates that make data centers pay their share of grid costs
The Public Utilities Commission must assess rate structures that make data centers pay their reasonable share of transmission, distribution and supply costs, and that ease cost pressure on household customers, including low-income rate programs.
When
This law takes effect on January 1, 2027. California laws take effect on January 1 of the year after they are signed, unless the law says otherwise.
- : Signed into law
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Official text
California SB 1168: Data centers: rate structures.
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