Sponsors (18)
The bill strengthens federal clarity and speeds prioritization/interconnection of dispatchable resources to improve near-term grid reliability, but it raises compliance costs, limits some local flexibility, and risks biasing investment away from variable renewables with attendant legal and economic frictions.
Electricity consumers, utilities, and communities: clearer statutory definitions plus prioritized, faster interconnection of dispatchable resources should improve grid planning and coordination, reducing outage risk and improving reliability.
Taxpayers and state governments: prioritizing dispatchable projects that shore up resource adequacy can reduce the need for emergency procurement and reliability-driven price spikes, lowering short-term scarcity costs.
Local communities, market participants, and state regulators: required public comment, stakeholder engagement, regular reporting to FERC, and five-year reviews increase transparency and create ongoing oversight and opportunities to adapt queue-prioritization rules.
Utilities, developers and ultimately consumers: new statutory definitions and proof requirements (e.g., demonstrating dispatchability or resilience) could impose compliance costs that are passed on to ratepayers.
State and local policymakers: tighter federal statutory definitions may reduce flexibility to pursue alternative reliability or resource-adequacy approaches tailored to local needs.
Taxpayers, utilities, and communities pursuing decarbonization: prioritizing 'dispatchable' resources may bias investment toward traditional generation or storage and away from variable renewables, slowing integration of clean energy and complicating climate goals.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Troy Balderson · Last progress September 19, 2025
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to open a rulemaking to make interconnection queues more flexible so new dispatchable power resources that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy can interconnect faster and more predictably. FERC must start the rulemaking within 90 days of enactment, issue final regulations within 180 days, and approve or deny transmission-provider proposals that reprioritize queues within 60 days of submission. Directs FERC to amend the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (and, as appropriate, the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement) to allow transmission providers to propose queue adjustments that give higher priority to dispatchable projects, subject to a demonstration of need, stakeholder engagement, public comment, and periodic reporting; FERC must review the rules at least every 5 years.