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Utah Code § 54-26-602

Accounting requirements -- Service standards

Enacted by Chapter 318, 2025 General Session

(1) A large-scale generation provider shall:

(a) maintain separate accounting records for all investments, revenues, and expenses associated with large-scale service requests using generally accepted accounting principles;

(b) take reasonable measures to ensure costs are properly allocated between large load service and other customers;

(c) provide all contracted energy services without reliance on any qualified electric utility, cooperative utility, municipal utility, or other utility except as provided under a large load contract;

(d) meet all applicable North American Electric Reliability Corporation standards; and

(e) maintain reasonable commercial liability insurance as determined by contract or the commission.

(2) A qualified electric utility shall:

(a) maintain separate accounting records for all investments, revenues, and expenses associated with large-scale service requests using generally accepted accounting principles; and

(b) take reasonable measures to ensure costs are properly allocated between large load service and other operations.

(3) All revenues and large load incremental costs associated with a large-scale service request shall be excluded from any rate determinations by the commission.

(4) In connection with any rate case or other appropriate proceeding before the commission, a qualified electric utility shall provide:

(a) operational data identifying when and to what extent the incremental generation resources identified in a large load contract pursuant to Subsection 54-26-301(3)(f) were dispatched to serve large load customers;

(b) an identification of the timing, magnitude, and duration of:

(i) the qualified electric utility's dispatch of the resources described in Subsection (4)(a);

(ii) any periods in which large load customers' loads exceeded the dispatch of resources described in Subsection (4)(a); and

(iii) any periods in which the dispatch of resources described in Subsection (4)(a) exceeded the large load customers' loads;

(c) the method by which costs for the provision of electric service from a qualified electric utility to a large load customer will be excluded from rates paid by retail customers; and

(d) any other information the commission requires to ensure that the costs associated with service to a large load customer are excluded from the rates paid for by retail customers.

(5) A qualified electric utility may not be required to publicly disclose specific revenue information from individual large load customers in any proceeding described in Subsection (4).

Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.