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Introduced November 20, 2025 by Sean Casten · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill greatly improves transparency and data-driven oversight of transmission and interconnection—helping planners, regulators, and consumers identify lower‑cost options and speed clean energy integration—while imposing new compliance costs, data‑protection challenges, and some regulatory inflexibility that could shift costs or create burdens for smaller utilities.
Utilities, regulators, researchers, and the public gain standardized, machine‑readable transmission and interconnection data (and a centralized repository/dashboard) that make costs, timelines, and performance comparable and searchable.
Ratepayers and consumers can get better oversight of project costs and cost allocations, enabling identification of lower‑cost pathways that may reduce the need for expensive buildouts and lower bills over time.
Renewable and storage developers, and grid operators, get clearer interconnection queue, cost, and modeling information that helps highlight bottlenecks and could speed interconnection and deployment of clean resources.
Utilities and developers will incur upfront and ongoing compliance and IT costs to collect, standardize, anonymize, and publish detailed machine‑readable data, costs that could be passed through to ratepayers.
Publication of granular or commercially sensitive information risks exposing competitive details or critical infrastructure characteristics, which could deter investment or create security vulnerabilities if not properly protected.
Smaller utilities and rural providers may struggle with the technical capacity to meet standardized, machine‑readable reporting requirements, creating uneven burdens, exemption requests, or increased costs for those communities.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires standardized, machine-readable transmission and interconnection reporting to FERC, a public centralized data repository with EIA, and DOE-led interconnection research and a public Dashboard.
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to adopt rules that standardize and modernize how transmitting utilities and Transmission Organizations report transmission and interconnection project, asset, cost, and performance data. Directs FERC and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to build a searchable, public, machine-readable central repository of reported data and requires the Department of Energy (DOE), working with National Laboratories and FERC, to research interconnection and transmission cost drivers and publish an Interconnection Data Dashboard and periodic reports. The law mandates detailed, standardized reporting (including quarterly interconnection-queue data), public access tools (APIs, visualizations, bulk downloads), anonymization and CEII protections, and ongoing analysis to identify delays, costs, and opportunities to improve grid efficiency and ratepayer outcomes. It sets definitions and data/metadata standards to guide implementation but does not specify new appropriations in the text provided.