CCS HS HCS SS SCS SB 555 -- ELECTRICITY FOR SMELTING FACILITIES

This bill allows certain aluminum smelting facilities to purchase
electrical power on the open market without regulation by the
Public Service Commission.  To be eligible, the facility must be
in a county of the second classification, must have used more
than three million megawatt hours of electricity in a calendar
year, and must have been served by a municipally owned utility
and an electric generating cooperative owned by rural electric
cooperatives.  The initial unregulated contract must not have a
negative financial impact on previous power suppliers or their
customers, reduce service reliability to other customers, or
reduce local or state tax revenue.  The smelting facility cannot
resell the power to anyone except the original suppliers.  Local
or past suppliers of electrical power will no longer have any
obligation to provide service to the facility.

The bill also allows municipalities to purchase electricity and
ancillary services from any supplier without regulation beyond
the approval of the governing board of the municipality.

The bill contains an emergency clause.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 25, 2003 at 10:13 am