Utilities balk at industrial customers generating their own power, selling excess on the grid

By: Wesley Muller

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: May 23, 2026

Words: 953

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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A proposal to allow industrial facilities to build private power plants and grids that could compete with electric utilities appears to have stalled in the Louisiana Senate despite gaining late support from earlier opponents.

Senate Bill 490, sponsored by Sen. Bob Hensgens, R-Abbeville, would allow large-scale power users to build their own private electricity networks and sell up to 50% of power they generate without being designated a public utility and regulated as …

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