The idea that specific types of electricity usage are worse than others and can be taxed at a separate rate class is an absolutely terrible and overreaching precedent for government (and utilities) to adopt.

We cannot differentiate taxes on energy usage types - this type of 'morality' check on what types of consumption are okay vs others has no constitutional bearing. Chelan's power grid governance cannot claim precedent to what types of activities are allowed with their product.

If a new soda bottling plant comes into town, should we 'judge' the electrical consumption and morality of their operations? What about a server farm serving millions of tiktok videos or illicit web material? Do they get an extra tax burden for their operations?

I agree with the tiered system (residential/commercial/industrial) so that everyone has access to their first N KWh's of electricity, and we need to have some sort of dynamic pricing in place so that grid infrastructure can hold up.

But having Chelan PUD (or any specific energy governance) suggest that one businesses' usage of servers is better than another's and justify's a different tax rate is ludicrous.

(https://www.chelanpud.org/my-pud-services/rates-and-policies)