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The bill speeds and standardizes interconnection for renewables and storage—reducing delays and improving transparency and financing—while risking higher compliance costs for ratepayers, potential reliability trade-offs if upgrades are deferred, and jurisdictional/implementation frictions.
Developers and grid operators (utilities, energy companies) will get faster, more predictable interconnection studies and timelines, reducing delays for new generation and storage projects.
Renewable and storage project developers gain clearer, resource-specific modeling and greater transparency, making projects easier to site, underwrite, and finance.
Interconnection customers and transmission providers benefit from clearer legal definitions and consistent terminology for generation and energy storage, reducing regulatory uncertainty in interconnection processes and planning.
Faster, streamlined interconnection could encourage deferring network upgrades, increasing the risk of reliability problems on constrained parts of the grid.
Transmission providers and utilities will incur compliance costs to redesign modeling, implement automation, and increase transparency; these costs are likely to be passed on to ratepayers and small businesses.
Projects with prior studies may face rework, uncertainty, or remediation if earlier studies don't meet new standards, causing delays and extra costs for developers and utility customers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Directs FERC to revise generator interconnection procedures to require resource-specific modeling, customer-risk-based studies, better queue management, transparency, and performance measures.
Introduced April 24, 2025 by Kathy Castor · Last progress April 24, 2025
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to start a rulemaking within 180 days and issue a final rule within 18 months to update federal generator interconnection procedures. The rulemaking must revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures and related agreement to require resource-specific modeling, study options tied to an interconnection customer's risk tolerance, clearer cost-effective solutions for network needs, improved queue management using advanced computing and automation, and transparency and performance measures to speed timely, cost-conscious network upgrade construction. The bill also defines key terms for generation and energy storage projects but does not change FERC's cost-allocation authority.