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Is Your Pending Data-Center Tariff Typical? A 27-Tariff Benchmark

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Among 27 coded written tariff terms, minimum take clusters at 80-85 percent: the zero-baseline count chart has 1 at 70 percent, 3 at 75, 14 at 80, 5 at 85, 3 at 90 and 1 at 100, with a median of 80 percent. The 100 percent row is a Texas proposed rule; adopted tariffs and proposals are combined, coding definitions differ, and these terms do not measure performance.

For the state utility commission staffer or consumer advocate who must judge a pending large-load tariff, and for the developer’s finance lead who must price against one. It is a data center tariff benchmark: the central terms of 27 US large-load tariffs, orders and filings, so you can see where a proposal sits. Bottom line … Read more