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The bill increases transparency and standardized data-sharing to improve oversight, planning, and clean‑energy integration—potentially lowering costs and speeding projects—but imposes compliance and federal costs, raises confidentiality/security tradeoffs, and may unevenly burden smaller utilities or shift costs regionally.
Ratepayers, regulators, researchers, and the public gain standardized, machine-readable transmission and interconnection data that makes it easier to compare costs, performance, and timelines across utilities.
Renewable and storage project developers and grid operators get clearer visibility into interconnection queues, bottlenecks, and cost drivers, which can speed integration of clean resources and reduce delays.
Ratepayers and consumers could see lower long‑term costs if standardized data and analysis identify lower‑cost pathways (e.g., unlocking latent capacity, grid‑enhancing tech) and reduce the need for expensive buildouts.
Electric utilities and developers will incur upfront and ongoing compliance costs to collect, standardize, anonymize, and publish detailed data, and those costs may be passed through to ratepayers.
Public disclosure of granular or improperly redacted data risks exposing commercially sensitive or critical infrastructure information (CEII/national security/privacy), potentially harming competition or security.
Maintaining a high‑quality public repository, dashboard, and periodic analysis requires ongoing federal resources and staffing that increase government spending funded by taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires FERC-standardized, machine-readable reporting from transmission entities, a public EIA/FERC data repository, and DOE-led research/dashboard on interconnection and transmission cost drivers.
Requires FERC to create a standardized, machine-readable reporting rule so transmitting utilities and transmission organizations must provide detailed project, cost, capital-structure, interconnection, and performance data. Directs FERC and the Energy Information Administration to build a searchable public data repository and requires DOE (with National Laboratories and FERC) to research transmission and interconnection cost drivers and maintain a public Interconnection Data Dashboard that publishes anonymized, standardized analytics and annual reports.
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