The bill enacts the Private Energy Campus and Industrial Host Site Generation Act, which allows for the sale of electricity and ancillary services to private industrial and data center enterprises on designated private energy campuses, exempting these transactions from public utility regulation. This legislation defines a private energy campus as a site primarily serving the energy needs of large industrial or data center enterprises and clarifies that these campuses are not intended to provide retail electric service to residential or small commercial customers. Additionally, the bill amends existing laws to exempt private energy campuses from parallel generation and net metering requirements, specifying that sales under private power purchase agreements do not constitute retail electric service under Kansas law.

The bill also outlines the requirements for customers seeking to construct distributed energy systems connected to utility systems, mandating utilities to acknowledge interconnection applications within 30 days and approve or deny them within a specified timeframe. It establishes guidelines for compensation for energy exported to utilities and ensures that parallel generation service is available to customers in good standing on a first-come, first-served basis. The bill further clarifies the definition of "customer-generator" to include owners of net metered facilities powered by renewable energy, while explicitly excluding entities that own or operate a private energy campus. It also repeals several existing statutes related to net metering, indicating a significant restructuring of the legal framework in this area.

Statutes affected:
As introduced: 66-104, 66-1, 66-1264