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KS HB2664

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2026

Primary Sponsor

Lance Neelly

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications2/3/2026

Full Bill Text

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