As used in the Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026:
- 1. "Applicable governing body" means, with respect to any retail electric supplier, the governmental, regulatory, or self-governing authority having lawful jurisdiction over the construction, ownership, interconnection, planning, safety, or operation of such electric supplier, including, but not limited to, the Corporation Commission, a municipal governing body, a rural electric cooperative's board of trustees, or other nonjurisdictional supplier;
- 2. "Cost causation" means customers responsible for the electric supplier incurring the cost should be allocated their equitable share of those costs;
- 3. "Electric supplier" means any entity providing electric service within the state, including investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities, and public power utilities;
- 4. "Large load customer" means new data centers, new cryptocurrency mining operations and new facilities whose primary function is artificial-intelligence computing facilities that contract with an electric supplier to add seventy-five (75) megawatts or greater electric load per facility or in aggregate behind a single point of interconnection to an electric supplier's load after July 1, 2026. It does not include residential, commercial, agricultural, or industrial ratepayers, or those entities that build generation for behind-the-meter projects; and
- 5. "Residential customer" means a customer receiving retail electric service for household purposes as established by the applicable electric supplier.
Laws 2026, HB 2992, c. 246, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 2026.