Updated 9 hours ago
Last progress September 16, 2025 (4 months ago)
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the Commission) to begin a rulemaking within 90 days to speed and improve how new dispatchable power projects connect to the grid. The rulemaking must revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreement so transmission providers may propose prioritizing dispatchable resources that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy; it sets Commission review deadlines, requires reports and public engagement, and calls for periodic review of the new rules.
Bulk-power system: Defined as the term is given in section 215(a) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o(a)).
Commission: Means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Dispatchable power: An electric energy generation resource capable of providing known and forecastable electric supply in time intervals necessary to ensure grid reliability.
Grid reliability: The ability of the electric grid to deliver an adequate, secure, and stable flow of electricity in the quantity and with the quality demanded by users, taking into account the ability of the bulk-power system to withstand sudden disturbances.
Grid resilience: The ability of the electric grid to adapt to changing physical conditions and withstand and rapidly recover from significant disturbances, including natural disasters, cyber-attacks, and other unforeseen events.
Who is affected and how:
Transmission organizations and transmission owners/operators: Required to revise tariffs, procedures, and filings; may propose queue-priority frameworks and must manage new implementation and reporting duties. They'll face administrative work and possible operational changes in how interconnection requests are processed.
Grid operators (RTOs/ISOs) and utility planners: Must integrate revised interconnection priorities into regional planning and market processes. They will need to establish technical criteria for identifying dispatchable reliability projects and adjust queue management systems.
Generators and project developers: Dispatchable resource developers (e.g., energy storage, dispatchable renewables with firming, or dispatchable thermal resources) are likely to benefit from an option to be prioritized when they demonstrate reliability/resource adequacy value. Developers of purely non‑dispatchable resources (intermittent generation without firming) may face slower or lower-priority queue positions depending on implemented rules.
Electricity customers and utilities: Potential reliability benefits from faster deployment of dispatchable capacity, but costs could shift depending on how transmission upgrades and interconnection cost allocation are changed; impacts on retail rates will depend on regional tariff changes and cost-sharing decisions.
Regulators and stakeholders (state utility commissions, consumer advocates, environmental groups): Will be engaged in the rulemaking and may contest how prioritization is defined and which technologies qualify. Environmental and clean-energy advocates may push to ensure storage and low‑carbon dispatchable options are eligible.
Timelines and legal/market effects: The statute imposes specific deadlines and reporting that press FERC and transmission providers to act promptly. The practical effects will depend on FERC’s final rule, RTO/ISO implementation, and any litigation or appeals.
Overall, the bill is a targeted regulatory mandate to accelerate connection of dispatchable resources that provide reliability and resource‑adequacy benefits; it changes process and priorities rather than directly funding projects or altering market design beyond interconnection rules.
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