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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota Enacts Legislative Study on Large Energy Consumers and Electrical Grid Impact
Last action · April 30, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 04/28Sponsors: Anna Novak and 4 others
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What This Bill Does
North Dakota requires a legislative management study during the 2025-26 interim to examine how data centers and other large energy consumers affect the state's electrical grid, regulatory structures, and economic development. The study will evaluate grid reliability, infrastructure costs, regulatory consistency, economic impacts, and market dynamics before reporting findings to the seventieth legislative assembly.
Sets up a formal state review process that will evaluate grid capacity costs, regulatory rules for investor-owned and cooperative utilities, and economic impacts tied to data center development across North Dakota.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Data center operators
Data center operators and large energy consumers must provide input and will be subject to the study's evaluation of regulatory and exemption criteria.
Investor-owned utilities
Investor-owned utilities are included in the study's evaluation of regulatory consistency, grid reliability, and infrastructure costs.
Ratepayers
Ratepayers are affected by best practices for integrating high-demand users while maintaining electrical grid reliability.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
16 actions- Apr 30, 2025Filed with Secretary Of State 04/28
- Apr 29, 2025HouseEnrolledSigned by Governor 04/28
- Apr 25, 2025HouseEnrolledSent to Governor
- Apr 25, 2025HouseSigned by Speaker
- Apr 22, 2025SenateSigned by President
- Apr 18, 2025HouseReturned to House
Show 10 earlier actions
- Apr 18, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 46 nays 0
- Apr 17, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 7 0 0
- Mar 28, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:30
- Mar 7, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Energy and Natural Resources Committee
- Feb 25, 2025SenateReceived from House
- Feb 24, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 89 nays 3
- Feb 24, 2025HouseCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Feb 21, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 10 0 3
- Jan 31, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:00
- Jan 20, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Energy and Natural Resources Committee
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