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HS1FORHB233 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

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Last action
2026-07-01
Official status
Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 8 NO 6 NOT VOTING
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.
  • This Act requires regulated utilities to establish a separate rate class for large energy use facilities that mitigates the risk of costs associated with expanding infrastructure and maintaining reliability in the face of growing demand from being shifted to residential, small business, and other electric customers.
  • Wherever possible, the costs of large energy use facilities should be directly assigned to those facilities, and where direct assignment is not possible, the costs should be allocated to the class of large energy use facilities and not to other customer classes.
  • To accomplish this, the Act sets forth minimum requirements for Electric Service Agreements (ESAs) and Transmission Security Agreement (TSAs) to be in place for any large energy use facility.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-07-01 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 8 NO 6 NOT VOTING

  2. 2026-06-30 Delaware General Assembly

    Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits

  3. 2026-06-30 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Stricken in Senate

  4. 2026-06-30 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 2 to HS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO

  5. 2026-06-30 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO

  6. 2026-06-29 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  7. 2026-06-23 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  8. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  9. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  10. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote

  11. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Roll Call on Motion to Table HS 1 for HB 233 - Defeated by House Vote: 16 YES 20 NO 5 ABSENT

  12. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 3 NO 9 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT

  13. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  14. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Stricken in House

  15. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  16. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 2 NO 2 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT

  17. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 9 NO 2 NOT VOTING 5 ABSENT

  18. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate

  19. 2026-05-21 Delaware General Assembly

    was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 233

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LARGE ENERGY USE FACILITIES.
This Act requires regulated utilities to establish a separate rate class for large energy use facilities that mitigates the risk of costs associated with expanding infrastructure and maintaining reliability in the face of growing demand from being shifted to residential, small business, and other electric customers. Wherever possible, the costs of large energy use facilities should be directly assigned to those facilities, and where direct assignment is not possible, the costs should be allocated to the class of large energy use facilities and not to other customer classes.
To accomplish this, the Act sets forth minimum requirements for Electric Service Agreements (ESAs) and Transmission Security Agreement (TSAs) to be in place for any large energy use facility. The Commission shall promulgate regulations to implement these agreements. ESAs shall be reviewed and approved by the Commission prior to the interconnection of a large energy use facility and provide a regulatory framewor