GRID Power Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The GRID Power Act directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to start a rulemaking within 90 days and issue final regulations within 180 days to change large generator interconnection procedures. The rules must let transmission providers submit proposals to move new dispatchable power projects higher in interconnection queues when those projects improve grid reliability and resource adequacy. Transmission providers must demonstrate the need for prioritization, explain how it improves grid reliability or resilience, provide public comment and stakeholder engagement before filing, and report regularly to FERC on grid reliability, grid resilience, and actions taken.
Who Benefits and How
Dispatchable natural-gas generators, nuclear generators, hydropower developers, other firm-capacity projects, regional transmission organizations, independent system operators, utilities facing resource-adequacy concerns, and electricity customers worried about reliability benefit from a pathway to faster queue movement for projects that can provide known and forecastable supply. Grid planners gain a reliability rationale for moving some projects ahead of first-come queue order.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FERC, transmission providers, public utilities, RTOs, ISOs, interconnection staff, renewable developers, storage developers that do not qualify as dispatchable under the rule, and stakeholders in existing queues must absorb rulemaking, proposal, reporting, comment, and queue-reordering burdens. Wind, solar, and other nonprioritized projects could lose queue position or face delays if dispatchable projects are moved ahead.
Key Provisions
- Defines dispatchable power, grid reliability, grid resilience, resource adequacy, transmission provider, ISO, RTO, and bulk-power system.
- Requires FERC to initiate a rulemaking within 90 days on interconnection queue flexibility for dispatchable power projects.
- Authorizes transmission providers to propose higher queue positions for dispatchable projects that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy.
- Requires need demonstrations, reliability or resilience explanations, public comment, stakeholder engagement, and regular reporting.
- Requires FERC to approve or deny proposals within 60 days and finalize regulations within 180 days.
- Requires FERC to review and update the regulations at least every five years.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires FERC to create interconnection-queue rules letting transmission providers prioritize new dispatchable power projects that improve grid reliability, resource adequacy, or resilience, with public comment, 60-day FERC proposal review, and five-year rule updates.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Electric Grid, FERC, Transmission
Primary Purpose
Requires FERC to create interconnection-queue rules letting transmission providers prioritize new dispatchable power projects that improve grid reliability, resource adequacy, or resilience, with public comment, 60-day FERC proposal review, and five-year rule updates.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Dispatchable natural-gas generators
- Nuclear generators
- Hydropower developers
- Regional transmission organizations
- Independent system operators
- Electricity customers
Identified Costs
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Transmission providers
- Public utilities
- Interconnection staff
- Wind developers
- Solar developers
- Existing queue participants
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - …
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4444)
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. …
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Dispatchable power generators, Natural gas power plant developers, Nuclear power developers
Positive-direction: Dispatchable power generators, Natural gas power plant developers, Nuclear power developers
Negative-direction: Transmission providers
On Passage
GRID Power Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "dispatchable_power"
- → Generation capable of providing known and forecastable electric supply in intervals needed for grid reliability.
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