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The bill makes the U.S. transmission system more transparent and better planned through standardized, centralized, machine‑readable data and public tools—potentially lowering long‑run costs and improving reliability—while imposing compliance, implementation, and security/disclosure risks and short‑term costs on utilities, taxpayers, and ratepayers.
Millions of utility customers, taxpayers, regulators, and researchers gain standardized, centralized, machine-readable transmission and interconnection data and public dashboards, improving transparency, oversight, and planning for the grid.
Ratepayers and taxpayers can benefit from analyses enabled by the data (e.g., identifying inefficient projects, congestion costs, or operational improvements) that target reforms to lower long‑run system costs and bills.
Utilities, transmission organizations, and grid planners gain consistent data schemas, a centralized filing/upload platform, and clearer definitions that reduce regulatory uncertainty and can improve integration of advanced technologies.
Utilities, holding companies, and transmission organizations will face increased compliance, data-conversion, and implementation costs to collect, standardize, and publish detailed data, costs that could be significant across the industry.
Publicizing detailed transmission and interconnection data raises cybersecurity and critical‑infrastructure risks and proprietary exposure concerns if anonymization and CEII protections are insufficient.
Taxpayers and federal budgets may face new or ongoing costs to develop, host, and maintain the centralized repository, dashboards, and analytic tools.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires FERC and EIA/DOE to standardize and publish machine-readable transmission, interconnection, cost, and capital-structure data, build a public repository and dashboard, and report on cost drivers.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Sean Casten · Last progress November 20, 2025
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to collect, standardize, and publish detailed, machine-readable data about transmission projects, interconnection activity, costs, and utility capital structures. It creates a centralized public data repository and an Interconnection Data Dashboard run by DOE labs, and directs DOE to research drivers of transmission and interconnection costs and publish periodic analyses and annual reports while protecting sensitive information.