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commitment ยท 2026

Protect residential customers from data center energy costs

Walkinshaw proposes changing how electric-grid costs are allocated so families and small businesses do not subsidize the energy demands of data centers and other large users. He also proposes requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to protect residential customers from rate increases driven by large energy loads.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

In their own words

Require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to protect residential ratepayers from cost increases driven by large energy loads

The source

James R. Walkinshaw: Priorities

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Retrieved: 11/10/2026