Electric utilities; temporary power purchase agreements. Provides that if the State Corporation Commission determines that, due to transmission constraints, a public utility is not able to furnish electric service sufficient to meet the current and reasonably anticipated requirements of a customer located in such public utility's service territory, such customer shall be permitted to enter into a temporary power purchase agreement with a third party that shall be authorized to own and operate a facility generating zero-carbon electricity located on such customer's site to serve part or all of such customer's electric service requirements. Under the bill, such authorization shall extend for at least six years.

Statutes affected:
House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103199D: 56-265.4