SB267
Electric utility infrastructure; Dept. of Energy & SCC to conduct comprehensive analysis, report.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
Feb. 13, 2026
Senate: Passed by for the day
Chief Patron:
Schuyler VanValkenburg (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Department of Energy and the State Corporation Commission; electric utility infrastructure; report.
Directs the Department of Energy (the Department), in consultation with the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), to conduct a comprehensive analysis of existing electric utility infrastructure to identify cost-saving opportunities that improve or preserve electric system reliability as an alternative or supplement to greenfield infrastructure projects. Additionally, the bill requires ... (More) the Commission to analyze whether there are or could be any potential voluntary regulatory pathways by which large load customers could directly finance such alternatives as a condition of accelerated interconnection. The bill requires the Department and the Commission to complete their analyses and submit a report to the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2026 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102873D
- 01/12/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB267)
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26107973D-S1
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (35-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
