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An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site

An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senator Glenn Curry
Last action
2025-05-23
Official status
Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site

An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site Sponsor: Senator Glenn Curry Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure)

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site Sponsor: Senator Glenn Curry Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure)

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1873(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1873(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 912 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • S- ) 3ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6SENATE 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to S.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-23 Governor

    Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure)

  2. 2025-05-21 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-20 House

    This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary. PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-05-09 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

  5. 2025-04-23 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-04-23 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  7. 2025-04-15 Committee

    Work Session Held; TABLED

  8. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site
Sponsor:
Senator Glenn Curry
Reference committee:
Energy, Utilities and Technology
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure)

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR1873(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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S.P. 402 - L.D. 912
An Act to Limit the Amount of Electricity That May Be Provided to Data
Centers on a Certain Commercial or Industrial Site
Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
Whereas, economic development in certain areas of the State requires ensuring that
energy resources are available to a variety of employers and industries; and
Whereas, this legislation is immediately necessary to ensure that local sources of
electricity generation are not monopolized by data centers; and
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within
the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as
immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now,
therefore,
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§20-B, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2019, c. 205, §2, is
amended to read:
B. The entity's tenants; or
Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§20-B, ¶C, as enacted by PL 2019, c. 205, §2, is
repealed and the following enacted in its place:
C. Commercial or industrial consumers located on the property where the entity is
located or on abutting property; or
Sec. 3. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§20-B, ¶D is enacted to read:
D. Commercial or industrial consumers located on a commercial or industrial site
within the control area of the New England independent system operator and located
in a municipality north of the Town of Chester that was served by the entity or its
predecessor without using the transmission and distribution plant of a public utility
prior to December 31, 2018. The exception under this paragraph does not apply if
more than 25% of the nameplate capacity of the entity is used to serve data centers
APPROVED
MAY 23, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
85
PUBLIC LAW
Page 2 - 132LR1873(03)
located on the commercial or industrial site. For the purposes of this paragraph, "data
center" means any facility in the State, which may be a freestanding structure or a
facility within a larger structure, that primarily contains electronic equipment used to
process, store and transmit digital information that uses environmental control
equipment to maintain the proper conditions for the operation of electronic equipment.
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation
takes effect when approved.