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KS HB2664
Bill
Status
2/3/2026
Primary Sponsor
Lance Neelly
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AI Summary
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Creates the "private energy campus and industrial host-site generation act" allowing private campuses to sell electricity and provide ancillary services to industrial facilities and data centers located on contiguous private property without public utility regulation
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Defines "private energy campus" as facilities on a single site owned by a common owner, developed to serve energy needs of private industrial or data center enterprises using on-site generation and storage, excluding residential/small commercial service
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Authorizes electric utilities to voluntarily enter interconnection agreements with private energy campuses for standby/emergency services and energy exports to the grid, with State Corporation Commission approval required for regulated utilities
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Prohibits private energy campuses from selling electricity outside their physical boundaries or across public rights-of-way, and exempts them from parallel generation and net metering requirements
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Amends definitions of "public utility," "retail electric supplier," "distributed energy system," and "customer-generator" in existing Kansas statutes to exclude private energy campus operations from regulatory jurisdiction
Legislative Description
Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus.
Last Action
House Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
2/3/2026