# EKPC Data Center Power (DCP) tariff approved by the Kentucky PSC (Oct. 31, 2025) > *Verbatim extracts from East Kentucky Power Cooperative's press release "Kentucky utility regulators approve EKPC's proposal for Data Center Power tariff," dated Oct. 31, 2025. Retrieved 2026-06-04 from ekpc.coop.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher**: East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) — generation-and-transmission cooperative serving 16 owner-member distribution cooperatives in Kentucky - **Date**: 2025-10-31 - **Action announced**: Kentucky Public Service Commission approval of EKPC's Data Center Power (DCP) tariff (EKPC proposed it in April 2025). The underlying PSC order is the primary adjudicative record. ## Extract > "The tariff creates a new customer class for data centers, and implements requirements to: > • Assure that costs and risks are appropriately identified and allocated between new data center loads and traditional residential, commercial and industrial members. > • **Prevent other cooperative members from paying for infrastructure, upgrades and any other costs the cooperative may incur to serve data centers.** > • Ensure data centers bear the cost of new infrastructure dedicated to their service, and provide sufficient cash flow for EKPC and the local electric distribution cooperative to provide large amounts of electricity. > • Obtain financial protections for existing members in the event a data center closes before the end of their contract. > • Require developers of data center projects exceeding 250 megawatts to provide a power supply plan with a dedicated resource in order to minimize risk to other members." > "The new DCP tariff applies to data center loads of **15 megawatts or greater that have high load factors**.... A special contract must be established between each eligible data center, EKPC and the local retail cooperative." EKPC General Counsel David Samford: "energy agreements must be structured from the outset to ensure costs and risks are appropriately identified and allocated to data centers and to protect other cooperative members, which is the goal of this new tariff." ## Notes - **Tier 2** — a utility's own published documentation of a state-regulatory action (the Kentucky PSC's approval of the DCP tariff). The underlying PSC order is the primary adjudicative record. It is a **comparator** from another jurisdiction, not evidence of any Arkansas act. - **Why it matters**: The EKPC DCP tariff is the regulatory model in which a utility builds a structure so that **data centers bear the cost of new infrastructure dedicated to their service and other ratepayers do not subsidize them** — the inverse of the Arkansas [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider|GAJA Rider]] model, under which all 738,836 Entergy Arkansas retail customers pay the new-generation revenue requirement and the offsetting data-center payments are sealed (see [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]]). The >250 MW "dedicated resource" requirement is a notable contrast to Entergy's system-wide Strategic-Investment generation recovered from the standard classes. - Cited by: [[Large-Load Cost-Allocation Comparators]]; [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]].