Power & grid
Oregon House passes POWER Act to separate large-load electricity costs
Confirmed
- Date
- 2025-06-05
- Location
- Oregon
- Category
- Power & grid
Oregon Capital Chronicle reported that House Bill 3546, the POWER Act, passed the House on June 5, 2025, after Senate passage that Tuesday. The measure would create a separate customer class for data centers and enable utility regulators to address infrastructure-cost allocation. This entry dates legislative passage, not gubernatorial signing or implementation: the report said the governor was expected to sign. It is a statewide power-policy event affecting data centers, not a permit for an identified AI campus; exclusive AI workloads are not established.