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PA SB724

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/31/2026

Primary Sponsor

Lindsey Williams

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "large load customers" as data centers with 25+ megawatt peak electric demand and requires the PA Public Utility Commission to regulate them through minimum 15-year contracts, financial security deposits, exit fees, and load curtailment provisions during emergencies

  • Prohibits public utilities from recovering costs incurred for large load customers from other ratepayers through rates, riders, or surcharges, with a rebuttable presumption that such costs belong exclusively to the large load customer

  • Establishes the Data Center LIHEAP Enhancement Fund requiring large load customers to pay $10,000 per megawatt annually to support low-income home energy assistance, including summer cooling programs

  • Mandates large load customers enter community benefits agreements with at least three local community-based organizations, paying minimum 10% of overall project costs for workforce development, environmental monitoring, public infrastructure, affordable housing, or other community improvements

  • Requires at least 25% of electricity supplied to large load customers under new contracts come from incremental renewable energy sources and limits electric generation suppliers from providing more than 25% of their annual energy output to any single large load customer

Legislative Description

Providing for regulation of large load customers and public utilities and for community benefits agreements between large load customers and community-based organizations; establishing the Data Center LIHEAP Enhancement Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Last Action

Referred to Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure

3/31/2026

Committee Referrals

Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure3/31/2026

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