S 4307 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Requires electric public utilities to develop and apply special rules for large load customers to protect non-large load customers from increasaed costs.**

This bill requires New Jersey's electric utilities to create a special pricing structure (tariff) for data centers within 180 days of the law taking effect. The tariff must prevent regular residential and business customers (non-data center ratepayers) from facing higher electricity costs due to data centers' increased energy demand. It also mandates that the pricing structure encourage data centers to improve energy efficiency, such as by using waste heat from their operations. Utilities must implement this tariff for all data centers in their service area one year after the bill becomes law, with the Board of Public Utilities overseeing approval. The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 12, 2025 Last action Jan 12, 2026
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Total actions
6
Key actions
2
Committee
4
Jan 8, 2026
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
May 22, 2025
Committee
Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
upper
May 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
May 19, 2025
Committee
Transferred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee
upper
May 12, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee
upper
2 primary · 5 co-sponsors

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