2024 24LSO-0232
STATE OF WYOMING Working Draft
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DRAFT ONLY
NOT APPROVED FOR
INTRODUCTION
HOUSE BILL NO.
Electricity rates for costs that do not benefit Wyoming.
Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to public utilities; specifying that costs
2 of interstate electric public utilities that do not benefit
3 Wyoming ratepayers may be excluded from costs apportioned
4 to Wyoming; and providing for an effective date.
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6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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8 Section 1. W.S. 37-3-119 is created to read:
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10 37-3-119. Apportionment of costs to Wyoming
11 ratepayers.
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1 In determining just and reasonable rates under this chapter
2 for an interstate electric public utility where a portion
3 of system costs are apportioned to Wyoming ratepayers, the
4 public service commission shall exclude any system costs
5 from rate determinations that do not have a benefit to
6 ratepayers in Wyoming. Costs that may be excluded include
7 the capital costs associated with facilities that are built
8 specifically to meet electricity service requirements
9 established by other states or entities outside of Wyoming.
10 The public service commission may approve a reduced
11 apportionment of costs to Wyoming ratepayers to the extent
12 that system costs are used to serve Wyoming ratepayers but
13 which relate to facilities that were built at a higher cost
14 than potential alternative sources of electricity, as
15 determined by the commission, because those alternative
16 sources of electricity may not have met electricity service
17 requirements established by other states or entities
18 outside of Wyoming.
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20 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2024.
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