Public Utilities
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to utility service disconnection reports by retail electric suppliers. [HB-629]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require retail electric suppliers to file monthly disconnection reports with the Public Service Commission; identify the contents of the monthly disconnection reports; and make those reports available to the public on the Public Service Commission's website.
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Gettr Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION facilitating the deployment of broadband internet service to unserved and underserved citizens in the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [SJR-175]
Directs the Public Service Commission to promulgate emergency administrative regulations on utility pole attachments for broadband service providers that will address the backlog of pole attachment requests; establishes parameters for preventing delays and backlogs of requests; requires the Public Service Commission to open a docket to receive comments and requests from affected parties; and requires the Public Service Commission to issue a quarterly report to the Legislative Research Commission beginning September 30, 2024; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Public Service Commission. [HB-628]
Create a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to require the Public Service Commission to issue final orders within six months of the filing of an application by a utility; amend KRS 278.110 to require final reports of investigations or special inquiries to be filed within the public record for the case for which it was prepared; require the contracted person to be subject to written information requests and cross-examination in any public hearing for the case in which the report was prepared.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to municipal utilities. [SB-229]
Amends KRS 42.747 to replace the member serving on the Blockchain Technology Working Group representing the Kentucky Municipal Utilities Association with a member representing municipal utilities and designated by the Kentucky League of Cities; amends KRS 96.780 to increase from $20,000 to $40,000 the maximum that a superintendent employed by an electric plant board contracting with the Tennessee Valley Authority may spend on behalf of the board without board approval; and amends KRS 224A.030 to replace the member serving on the Kentucky Infrastructure
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solar energy. [SB-233]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to define terms; prohibit any utility operating under the chapter from constructing a facility that generates electricity using solar energy if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; amend KRS 278.020 to prohibit the Public Service Commission from granting an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a facility that
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Electrical Energy & Energy Portfolio Stds [HB-368]
An Act relating to clean energy standards and a clean energy transferable tax credit; and providing for an effective date.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to affordable and reliable utility service. [HB-607]
Amend KRS 278.030 to require utilities to furnish affordable and reliable utility service.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Power Cost Equalization [HB-365]
An Act relating to power cost equalization; and providing for an effective date.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to combined municipal electric and water utilities. [SB-220]
Amend KRS 96.171 to define "governing body" and "customer"; amend KRS 96.172 to increase the combined electric and water plant board membership from five to seven; require that vacancies on the board be filled in a manner that will bring the board membership closest to being proportionately representative of customers of the board who live inside and outside of the city limits of the city served by the combined system or plant; provide for the nomination of board members and appointment by the mayor; apply anti-nepotism restrictions relating to
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public water and wastewater systems, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-563]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, to create a forbearance period of three years for a utility acquiring a public water or wastewater system with existing violations, to require the acquiring utility to correct past violations during the forbearance period, to defer fines and penalties during the forbearance period, to prioritize funding from the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA) for projects where the acquiring utility is making improvements to the acquired system, to allow for a waiver of accrued fines and penalties
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Utah 2024 General Session
Public Utility Expenditures Amendments [SB-249]
Public Utility Expenditures Amendments
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Community Energy Facilities; Net Metering [HB-328]
An Act relating to community energy facilities.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cellular antenna towers. [HB-522]
Amend KRS 100.987 and 278.650 to prohibit the siting of cellular towers capable of fifth generation mobile communication service within 1,640 feet of any residentially zoned area; create a new section of KRS 211.842 to 211.852 to establish a registry for wireless radiation exposure; require cellular antenna tower owners to register annually with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to establish a registry of cellular antenna tower owners.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth. [SJR-140]
Directs the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities, including but not limited to conducting a survey of nuclear regulatory staff in other states, contracting with personnel with expertise in nuclear regulatory matters to be available to assist immediately with any nuclear siting or construction applications that may be filed with the commission, providing
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Public Utility Regulatory Cost Charge [SB-224]
An Act relating to the calculation of the regulatory cost charge for public utilities and pipeline carriers; and providing for an effective date.
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Idaho 2024 Regular Session
Amends existing law to revise terminology and to clarify specified terms. [SB-1323]
PUBLIC UTILITIES -- Amends existing law to revise terminology and to clarify specified terms.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Emerg Wireless Device Location Disclosure [HB-316]
An Act relating to law enforcement requests for wireless device location information in emergencies; and providing for an effective date.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Public Utility Regulatory Cost Charge [HB-313]
An Act relating to the calculation of the regulatory cost charge for public utilities and pipeline carriers; and providing for an effective date.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Rca Regulate Natural Gas Storage Facility [SB-220]
An Act relating to the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and regulation of the service of natural gas storage.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Integrated Transmission Systems [SB-217]
An Act relating to the taxation of independent power producers; and increasing the efficiency of integrated transmission system charges and use for the benefit of ratepayers.