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The bill standardizes definitions and forces faster, more transparent interconnection rulemaking to speed deployment of generation and storage, improving predictability for developers but risking higher compliance costs passed to ratepayers, possible exclusion of novel technologies, jurisdictional disputes, and reliability/administrative strains.
Developers, transmission providers, utilities, and state regulators get clearer, consistent legal definitions and an expedited FERC rulemaking timeline, reducing regulatory uncertainty and making interconnection approvals more predictable.
Grid operators and project developers face faster, more predictable interconnection studies and processes, which should shorten delays for new generation and storage projects.
Renewable and storage project developers get clearer, resource-specific modeling and greater transparency, improving siting decisions and making projects easier to finance.
Ratepayers, small businesses, and developers could bear higher costs because transmission providers must redesign modeling, implement automation, increase transparency, and potentially rework prior studies—compliance and transition costs likely get passed through.
Faster interconnection timelines without corresponding network upgrades could put constrained parts of the grid at higher risk of reliability problems, potentially affecting public safety and service continuity in impacted communities.
Narrow or specific statutory definitions of storage and generation risk excluding novel or emerging storage technologies until the Commission expressly recognizes them, delaying innovative projects and disadvantaging small developers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires FERC to revise pro forma interconnection procedures to speed, standardize, and increase transparency in interconnection studies and queue management for generation and storage.
Official title: To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations that accelerate the interconnection of electric generation and storage resources to the transmission system through more efficient and effective interconnection procedures.
Introduced April 24, 2025 by Kathy Castor · Last progress April 24, 2025
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to open a rulemaking and revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures to speed and improve how generators and energy storage projects connect to the high‑voltage transmission grid. The bill sets deadlines (rulemaking opened within 180 days and a final rule within 18 months) and directs FERC to require resource‑specific modeling, queue‑management best practices, clearer information sharing, and transparency/performance measures for timely, cost‑conscious network upgrades.