Sponsors (2)
The bill speeds and broadens interconnection for storage and clean generation—helping deploy flexible, lower-cost clean energy—but risks higher near-term upgrade costs, administrative burdens, uneven implementation, and some regulatory and reliability uncertainty if not carefully managed.
Renewable and storage developers (and ultimately electricity consumers) face faster, lower-cost interconnection because improved, resource-specific modeling, greater automation, and better queue management reduce study delays, avoid overestimated upgrade costs, and accelerate project deployment.
Transmission owners, project developers, and state regulators get clearer, broader definitions for energy storage and generation (including batteries, pumped hydro, hydrogen, thermal, and construction/modification projects), reducing legal ambiguity and letting more storage and upgrade projects qualify for interconnection—facilitating grid flexibility and project approvals.
Greater transparency and information-sharing about study assumptions and timelines helps project owners and investors understand risks, reducing uncertainty for developers and small businesses and improving the investment environment for clean energy projects.
More inclusive definitions and faster/streamlined interconnection can increase the number of interconnection requests and, absent changes in cost allocation, lead to longer queues and higher near-term upgrade bills for customers and taxpayers.
Transmission providers (especially smaller utilities and regional operators) will face administrative and IT upgrade costs and may struggle to adopt required modeling, automation, and transparency tools quickly, producing uneven implementation across regions and disadvantaging rural communities.
If interconnection timelines are accelerated without careful changes to cost allocation and reliability oversight, construction or reliability risks could be shifted onto other grid users, creating operational risks for the grid.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires FERC to revise pro forma interconnection rules to speed and standardize studies, modeling, queue management, and transparency for generation and energy storage projects.
Introduced April 24, 2025 by Kathy Castor · Last progress April 24, 2025
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revise the standard large-generator interconnection rules and agreement to speed up and improve how new power generation and energy storage projects connect to the high-voltage grid. It sets deadlines for rulemaking and requires transmission providers to use resource-specific modeling, consider customer risk preferences, pick cost-effective reliability solutions, share queue-management best practices, and increase transparency and performance tracking for network upgrades.