LCO No. 2610 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 892 January Session, 2025 LCO No. 2610 Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY Introduced by: SEN. MARX, 20th Dist. REP. GAUTHIER, 38th Dist. REP. MENAPACE, 37th Dist. AN ACT REQUIRING AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF LARGE DATA CENTERS ON THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: To require that the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, in 1 consultation with the Office of Consumer Counsel, the Department of 2 Energy and Environmental Protection and the regional independent 3 system operator, as defined in section 16-1 of the general statutes, 4 initiate an uncontested proceeding to evaluate the impact of large data 5 centers on electric distribution system reliability. 6 Statement of Purpose: To require the evaluation of the impact of large data centers on electric distribution system reliability.