DelawareSome Delaware electric cooperatives could decline very large power requests
Delaware electric cooperatives exempt from state utility commission oversight and offering supplier choice could decide whether to supply customers expected to need more than 50 megawatts in a month.
What it does
Certain Delaware electric cooperatives could choose whether to supply customers expected to need more than 50 megawatts in a month during a 10-year growth period. Related customers on adjoining land may count as one.
Argument forA cooperative could avoid taking on a customer's unusually large power demand if it cannot or does not want to supply it.
Argument againstA very large customer might need to find another power supplier if its cooperative chooses not to supply it.
More detail
A covered electric cooperative may choose whether to supply power to a qualifying customer. This applies to cooperatives that opted out of state utility commission oversight and adopted a plan allowing competing suppliers in their Delaware service areas. The customer's expected monthly demand must exceed 50 megawatts, a measure of electric power. Customers under common ownership on the same or adjoining land may count as one customer. The demand test looks at any month during a 10-year period when the customer's power use grows.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jun 10Signed by Governor Matt MeyerBecame Law
- May 21Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENTPassed House
- Vote recorded Passage. Result: pass.Lower
- May 13Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its MeritsMinor
- Apr 30Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in HouseMinor
- Apr 23Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YESPassed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 15Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its MeritsMinor
- Apr 9Introduced and Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in SenateIntroduced
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