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Standardizes and expands FERC data reporting, creates a public repository and dashboard, and requires DOE analysis of transmission/interconnection costs and delays.
Official title: To modernize and standardize the manner in which information and data is reported to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Sean Casten · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill trades broader, standardized transparency and centralized data that can improve oversight, planning, and clean‑energy integration (potentially lowering costs) against higher compliance and federal costs, privacy/security and commercial‑sensitivity risks, and uneven burdens that may require mitigation.
Utilities, regulators, researchers, and the public gain standardized, machine-readable transmission and interconnection data that make it easier to compare costs and performance across projects and utilities.
Ratepayers (customers/taxpayers) can better track project costs, cost allocations, and returns, improving oversight and creating opportunities to lower consumer bills through identified savings or more efficient cost recovery.
Renewable and storage developers, and grid operators, can identify interconnection bottlenecks and cost drivers more quickly, speeding integration of clean resources and reducing delays to new clean generation.
Utilities, transmission organizations, and developers will face upfront and ongoing compliance costs to collect, standardize, convert legacy filings, and publish detailed machine‑readable data — costs that may be passed on to customers.
Publishing granular operational, locational, or cost data risks exposing sensitive infrastructure or commercially confidential information (CEII), creating privacy/security and national‑security risks if protections are insufficient.
Public disclosure of detailed bids, cost structures, or other commercial information could harm utilities' or small developers' competitive positions and deter private investment.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires FERC to adopt standardized reporting rules so transmitting utilities and transmission organizations submit comprehensive, machine-readable data on transmission projects, costs, capital structure, interconnection queues, and performance. Directs FERC and the EIA to build and maintain a public, searchable data repository and requires DOE (via National Laboratories) to research interconnection and transmission cost drivers and publish regular, anonymized dashboard reports to inform policy and planning. Creates technical standards, metadata schemas, API/bulk access, anonymization and CEII protections, and recurring analysis to identify systemic delays, cost drivers, and opportunities to increase grid efficiency and unlock capacity. Defines key terms and ties the new reporting to existing FERC forms and Federal Power Act definitions.