The Senate Committee on Regulated Industries and Utilities offered the following
substitute to SB 34:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Chapter 2 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the
Public Service Commission, so as to require certain contract terms and conditions between
electric utilities and large load customers; to provide for a definition; to provide for related
matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 2 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Public
Service Commission, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:
<ins>"46-2-25.4.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'large load customer' means customers with an
expected total peak demand of 100 megawatts or greater at one or more premises located
on one tract or contiguous tracts of land.
(b) Each contract between an electric utility and a large load customer for the provision
of electric service, entered into on or after the effective date of this Act, shall include terms
and conditions designed to protect residential and retail electricity customers from costs
</ins>
<ins>associated with serving new large load customers, including, but not limited to, the
following:
(1) Minimum billing requirements designed to recover incremental costs associated with
serving or preparing to serve a large load customer;
(2) A contract term that may exceed the length of the applicable service tariff;
(3) Performance and credit provisions designed to protect retail customers in the event
of contract default; and
(4) Termination provisions designed to protect retail customers in the event of
termination of the contract for electric service."
</ins> SECTION 2.
This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law
without such approval.
SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.