Sponsors (13)
The bill trades broader, centralized transparency and standardized data—helping ratepayers, regulators, and planners identify cost and reliability problems—for increased compliance, federal and utility IT costs, and heightened risks around sensitive operational data and implementation burden.
Ratepayers (taxpayers and middle‑class households) gain clearer, public visibility into transmission and interconnection costs and congestion drivers, enabling better oversight of electricity bills and infrastructure spending.
Utilities, regulators, and researchers get centralized, standardized, machine‑readable data and a public dashboard that speeds planning, oversight, and identification of delay/cost drivers, which can reduce project delays and unexpected charges.
Third‑party analysts, developers, and researchers can use APIs and bulk downloads to build tools, perform independent analysis, and foster innovation in energy markets and planning.
Making extensive operational and interconnection data public increases cybersecurity and national‑security risks if CEII protections, anonymization, or other safeguards are inadequate.
Collecting, converting, standardizing, and maintaining large machine‑readable datasets will raise compliance and IT costs for utilities and the federal government, costs that could be passed to ratepayers or increase taxpayer funding needs.
Mandated preparation, revision timelines, standardized methodologies, and additional reporting impose administrative and resource burdens on utilities, FERC, and regional entities that could strain capacity and slow implementation.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Sean Casten · Last progress November 20, 2025
Requires FERC to modernize and standardize how transmitting utilities and Transmission Organizations report transmission and interconnection data, and directs FERC and the EIA to build a centralized, searchable, machine-readable public data repository. Directs the Department of Energy to run recurring research and a public Interconnection Data Dashboard using anonymized queue data to identify cost drivers, delays, and strategies to improve affordability and grid expansion. The law mandates detailed quarterly reporting of project lifecycle, cost, interconnection, and operational metrics; public availability of historical and future FERC Form No. 1 and related filings; data schemas, APIs, and visualization tools; CEII protections and anonymization; and specific agency deadlines (e.g., FERC review of covered forms within 1 year and repository availability actions within 2 years).