STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 11

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator SMITH)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 25, 2025

      These floor amendments would update the concurrent resolution’s existing definition of “peaking power plant,” in order to clarify that such a plant will only be eligible for exemption, from the constitutional prohibition established under the resolution, if that plant has a maximum capacity factor of not more than 10 percent.  The amendments would additionally define the term, “capacity factor,” to mean:  the unitless ratio, indicated as a percentage rate, of the total amount of electric energy that is actually output by an electric power generation facility, throughout a calendar year, over the theoretical maximum amount of electrical energy that is capable of being output by the same facility, during the same calendar year, given the facility’s nameplate capacity.