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Establishes mandatory, standardized transmission scorecards, twice-yearly reporting by covered transmission owners, and a public DOE portal to publish data within 18 months.
Official title: To require standardized performance reporting for entities engaged in electricity transmission to improve transparency, accountability, and grid outcomes, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Sean Casten · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill increases transparency, standardized metrics, and stakeholder oversight to improve transmission planning and accountability — but it also raises implementation complexity, compliance costs (potentially passed to ratepayers), privacy and competitive risks, and governance challenges that must be managed to realize net public benefit.
Taxpayers, state and local governments, researchers, and utility customers gain public, standardized transmission scorecards and machine‑readable source data (via a searchable portal) that improve transparency, oversight, and comparability of grid performance and planning.
Utilities, grid operators, and investors receive clearer baselines, targets, and standardized metrics (plus technical input) that support better transmission planning and more cost‑effective investment decisions across regions.
Ratepayers and middle‑class families benefit from increased accountability on affordability and cost‑recovery metrics, making it easier to spot high financing costs, imprudent investments, or unnecessary rate increases.
Utility customers (ratepayers and taxpayers) may face higher bills because new standardized reporting, verification, portal development, and recurring stakeholder processes impose administrative and compliance costs that utilities could pass through.
Expanding reporting requirements and tying definitions to specific orders or federal constructs creates legal, regulatory, and implementation complexity—raising jurisdictional challenges, data‑collection burdens, and risks of delays or reduced public trust.
Public disclosure of project‑level, financial, or demographic data could risk privacy or confidentiality and, if not properly anonymized, expose sensitive information about communities or market participants.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal program requiring standardized, public "transmission investment, accountability, and performance" scorecards for owners of high-voltage transmission tied to the bulk power system. The Department of Energy, working with FERC, DOE's EIA, DOT, states, tribes, and regional entities, must develop scorecard metrics, verification procedures, and a public searchable portal; covered transmission owners must submit TIAPS reports twice per year and FERC must run periodic technical conferences and stakeholder advisory groups to refine metrics and data quality.