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Utah law currently allows private parties to use eminent domain—the legal power to take private property for public use—to acquire land rights for pipelines. This bill would add a new restriction preventing a private company from using eminent domain to obtain pipeline rights on property that is used or planned for generating energy, such as a solar, wind, gas, geothermal, or hydroelectric facility, when that pipeline would serve only that single energy generator or facility owner. This restriction would not apply if the pipeline would run within an existing utility easement or alongside an existing or planned road, or if the pipeline is built with the capacity to serve more than one customer. The new limits would apply to both future eminent domain cases and any that are already pending when the law takes effect.