Public statement checked
Answer
Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported as of PSC page and bill text read 1 November 2026 Independent evidence supports part of the claim; the rest is unknown or unsupported. The full statement is not thereby false. How verdicts work →
- Who stated it
- Said by the Missouri Public Service Commission · government record in Utility Tariffs for Large Load Customers →
- What the evidence establishes
- Partly. SB 4 requires electrical corporations with over 250,000 customers to develop and submit schedules for customers 'reasonably projected to have above an annual peak demand of one hundred megawatts or more' (for smaller utilities, 'fifty megawatts or more'), which 'should reasonably ensure' those customers pay their share. The duty falls on utilities, and the law does not name data centers.
- Biggest limitation
- The text of the Commission's orders approving the Ameren Missouri and Evergy large load tariffs, including the 12-year minimum term and collateral terms the PSC describes; those orders could not be read.
- Checked
- 1 November 2026 · Next review: The Commission's orders approving the Ameren Missouri and Evergy large load tariffs, or the Liberty large load tariff decision
Evidence
What the evidence supports
The truly agreed text of SS#2 SB 4 says each electrical corporation providing electric service to more than 250,000 customers shall develop and submit to the commission schedules applicable to customers 'reasonably projected to have above an annual peak demand of one hundred megawatts or more', and that the schedules should reasonably ensure such customers' rates reflect their representative share of the costs incurred to serve them and prevent other customer classes' rates from reflecting any unjust or unreasonable costs arising from service to them. Utilities with 250,000 or fewer customers as of 1 January 2025 must do the same for customers 'reasonably projected to have above an annual peak demand of fifty megawatts or more', and the commission may order similar tariffs for customers below those levels. The statute's threshold wording combines 'above' and 'or more'; it is quoted here as written. The purpose the PSC describes matches the text. The text places the duty on utilities to develop and submit schedules rather than on the Commission to adopt rates, and it defines the class by projected peak demand without naming data centers.
Still unknown
The text of the Commission's orders approving the Ameren Missouri and Evergy large load tariffs, including the 12-year minimum term and collateral terms the PSC describes; those orders could not be read.
Sources
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Utility Tariffs for Large Load Customers → Gov. record
Exact location First paragraph and list of protections.
What it supports The statement checked.
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SS#2 SB 4, truly agreed and finally passed (2025) → Gov. record
Exact location Section 393.130, subsection 7 (schedules for customers 'reasonably projected to have above an annual peak demand of one hundred megawatts or more', or 'fifty megawatts or more' for smaller utilities; cost-share standard).
What it supports What the statute requires and of whom.
Review details
Scope
- Unit
- statutory tariff requirement
- Geography
- Missouri electrical corporations; customers 'reasonably projected to have above an annual peak demand of one hundred megawatts or more' (or of 'fifty megawatts or more' for utilities with 250,000 or fewer customers as of 1 January 2025)
- Period
- SB 4 (2025); PSC page read 1 November 2026
- As of
- PSC page and bill text read 1 November 2026
- Confidence
- high — Truly agreed bill text on the Missouri Senate's site compared with the PSC page.
- Kind
- Public statement checked
Conflicting evidence
None recorded when this claim was checked. That records what we logged, not a finding that no conflicting record exists.
Chronology
- 2 sources retrieved
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- Date not established Stated by Missouri Public Service Commission — statement date not established
- Date not established Published 2025 — SS#2 SB 4, truly agreed and finally passed (2025)
- Date not established Next review: The Commission's orders approving the Ameren Missouri and Evergy large load tariffs, or the Liberty large load tariff decision
Corrections and history
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