IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
Number
251889
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. DIMITRIJEVIC, STAMPER, BAUMAN AND BROWER
Title
Resolution expressing opposition to the Wisconsin Electric Power Company proposal before the Public Service Commission.
Analysis
This resolution expresses opposition to the Wisconsin Electric Power Company’s current proposal before the Public Service Commission. Further, the resolution advocates that large data center customers pay 100% of all incremental and fixed costs required to serve them, that enforceable, long-term protections be in place so Wisconsin ratepayers are not left responsible if data center plans change or demand falls, and that the electricity use threshold that triggers these protections be set low enough to prevent avoidance by data center operators.
Body
Whereas, The Wisconsin Electric Power Company has requested that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approve a proposal that would establish a very large customer and bespoke resources tariff system, in the context of providing electricity to customers such as data centers; and
Whereas, The Executive Director of the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin has identified aspects of the proposal that put average customers at risk of paying additional costs to support the electricity and infrastructure needs of large data centers; and
Whereas, A utility auditor for the Public Service Commission testified that, under the terms of the proposal, if a data center uses less power than expected or terminates service early, average customers could be charged for plant and fuel costs associated with the data center; and
Whereas, A utility financial analyst for the Public Service Commission testified that the proposed 10-year term of the tariff would not recover all long-term costs that a data center may cause the utility to incur; and
Whereas, The proposal sets the tariff eligibility threshold at 500 megawatts of forecasted annual electric load; and
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