AR HB1557

Requires local governments (counties, cities, incorporated towns) to notify electric utilities of emergency warming and cooling center locations established to protect elderly and disabled individuals during extreme weather events.

Mandates utilities include identified emergency centers in their planning process when implementing coordinated power interruptions or other energy reduction measures directed by regional transmission organizations or reliability coordinators.

Requires utilities to use best efforts to directly notify designated local government contact persons as soon as reasonably possible before implementing coordinated service interruptions or emergency energy measures, excluding notification via social media.

Obligates utilities to prioritize avoiding interruptions to emergency warming and cooling centers and to prioritize restoring electric service to those facilities, to the extent technically feasible.

Defines "direct notify" as providing notification within a reasonable time before a coordinated interruption or emergency measure in response to extreme weather conditions, requires best efforts to technically feasible notification methods.