New Jersey legislation · 2026-2027 Regular Session
New Jersey A796: Electric public utilities-develop and apply special rules for cert data centers
Status: Signed into law, July 7, 2026
Requires electric public utilities to develop and apply special rules for certain data centers to protect non-data center customers from increased costs.**
What the bill says
An Act concerning the provision of electricity to 1[data centers] 2[ [ADDED: certain commercial customers] 1] [ADDED: certain data centers] 2 and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. Jersey: 3[1. a. As used in this section: Board means the Board of Public Utilities. Electric public utility means the same as the term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51). Large load 1[data center means a facility: (1) whose primary services are the storage, management, and processing of digital data; (2) that is used to house computer and network systems, including associated co.
From the chaptered text, July 7, 2026:
An Act concerning the provision of electricity to 1[data centers] 2[ [ADDED: certain commercial customers] 1] [ADDED: certain data centers] 2 and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. Jersey: 3[1. a. As used in this section: Board means the Board of Public Utilities. Electric public utility means the same as the term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51). Large load 1[data center means a facility: (1) whose primary services are the storage, management, and processing of digital data; (2) that is used to house computer and network systems, including associated components such as servers, network equipment and appliances, telecommunications, and data storage systems, systems for monitoring and managing infrastructure performance, Internet-related equipment and services, data communications connections, environmental controls, fire protection systems, and security systems and services; and (3) has, or is projected to have, a maximum monthly [ADDED: ] demand of at least] 2[ [ADDED: customer means a commercial customer for retail electric service that is a centralized facility or facilities with a monthly demand of more than] 1] [ADDED: data center means a facility or facilities: (1) whose primary services are the storage, management, and processing of digital data; (2) that is used to house computer and network systems, including associated components such as servers, network equipment and appliances, telecommunications, and data storage systems, …