Kansas HB2664: Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus

What the bill says

An act concerning energy; enacting the private energy campus and industrial host site generation act; authorizing the sales of electricity and the provision of ancillary services to private industrial and data center enterprises located on a private energy campus; exempting such sales and services from public utility regulation; authorizing an electric public utility to enter into interconnection and energy services agreements with a private energy campus; exempting a private energy campus from parallel generation and net metering requirements; defining a private energy campus…

From the introduced text, February 3, 2026:

AN ACT concerning energy; enacting the private energy campus and industrial host site generation act; authorizing the sales of electricity and the provision of ancillary services to private industrial and data center enterprises located on a private energy campus; exempting such sales and services from public utility regulation; authorizing an electric public utility to enter into interconnection and energy services agreements with a private energy campus; exempting a private energy campus from parallel generation and net metering requirements; defining a private energy campus; amending K.S.A. 66-1,170 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 66-104, 66-1,184 and 66-1264 and repealing the existing sections. WHEREAS, The state of Kansas is experiencing an increasing demand for firm, dispatchable electric power driven by emerging and expanding industrial sectors, including, but not limited to, hydrogen production, ammonia synthesis, data center operations and advanced manufacturing; and WHEREAS, Regulated electric public utilities have publicly identified a growing deficit in dispatchable generation capacity necessary to reliably meet current and projected load demand forecasts; and WHEREAS, Preserving the exclusive service territories of electric public utilities is essential to maintaining reliable and affordable electric service for residential and small commercial ratepayers; and WHEREAS, Allowing voluntary, negotiated arrangements between a private energy campus and electric public utilities for emergency support, standby service, energy exports and grid reliability enhances the resilience of the electric system …