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A4509 • 2026

Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.

Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Sauickie, Alex
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.

Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.
  • Topic: Telecommunications and Utilities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.
Topic:
Telecommunications and Utilities
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4509

ASSEMBLY, No. 4509

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 9, 2026

Sponsored by:

sAssemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires electric public utilities to provide
industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power
outages.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
requiring electric public utilities to provide certain
equipment during power outages and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised
Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.� As used in this
section:�

���� �Affected area� means the
entire geographic area that has lost electrical service due to a power outage
lasting six or more hours.

���� �Electric public utility� means
a public utility, as that term is defined in R.S.48:2-13, that transmits and
distributes electricity to end users within this State.

���� �Industrial portable power
station� means a large-scale high-energy-density lithium-ion battery that can
be used to charge external devices.

���� b.��� In the event of a power
outage lasting for six or more hours, the electric public utility responsible
for providing the interrupted service shall provide industrial portable power
stations to the affected area.� The electric public utility shall provide one
industrial portable power station for every 20 square miles affected by the
power outage.

���� c.���� The electric public
utility shall provide the industrial portable power stations by the end of the
sixth hour of the power outage and shall provide the industrial portable power
stations in central locations that are accessible to customers within the affected
area.� The location of each industrial portable power station shall be
published on the electric public utility�s Internet website within one hour of
providing the industrial portable power station.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires electric
public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations during power
outages that last six or more hours to the customers affected by the power
outage.� The electric public utility responsible for providing the interrupted
service is required to provide the industrial portable power stations by the
end of the sixth hour of the power outage.� The electric public utility is
required to provide one industrial portable power station for every 20 square miles
affected by the power outage. �The industrial portable power stations are
required to be provided in central locations that are accessible to customers
affected by the power outage.� The bill requires the location of each
industrial portable power station to be published on the electric public
utility�s Internet website within one hour of placement.