Expediting Generator Interconnection Procedures Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2986 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2986

   To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate
regulations that accelerate the interconnection of electric generation
and storage resources to the transmission system through more efficient
               and effective interconnection procedures.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 2025

Ms. Castor of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL

   To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate
regulations that accelerate the interconnection of electric generation
and storage resources to the transmission system through more efficient
               and effective interconnection procedures.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expediting Generator Interconnection
Procedures Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal
        Energy Regulatory Commission.
            (2) Energy storage project.--The term ``energy storage
        project'' means--
                    (A) any equipment that receives, stores, and
                delivers energy using batteries, compressed air, pumped
                hydropower, hydrogen storage (including hydrolysis),
                thermal energy storage, regenerative fuel cells,
                flywheels, capacitors, superconducting magnets, or
                other technologies identified by the Commission; and
                    (B) any project for the construction or
                modification of equipment described in subparagraph (A)
                as part of an effort to build-out transmission
                interconnection opportunities.
            (3) Generation project.--The term ``generation project''
        means--
                    (A) any facility--
                            (i) that generates or injects electricity;
                        and
                            (ii) for which an interconnection request
                        is subject to the jurisdiction of the
                        Commission; and
                    (B) any project for the construction or
                modification of a facility described in subparagraph
                (A).
            (4) Interconnection customer.--The term ``interconnection
        customer'' means a person or entity that has submitted an
        interconnection request.
            (5) Interconnection request.--The term ``interconnection
        request'' means a request submitted to a public utility to
        interconnect a new generation project or energy storage project
        to the electric system of a public utility for the purposes of
        transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce or the
        sale of electric energy at wholesale.
            (6) Public utility.--The term ``public utility'' has the
        meaning given the term in section 201(e) of the Federal Power
        Act (16 U.S.C. 824(e)).
            (7) Transmission facility.--The term ``transmission
        facility'' means a facility that is used for the transmission
        of electric energy in interstate commerce.
            (8) Transmission provider.--The term ``transmission
        provider'' means a public utility that owns, operates, or
        controls 1 or more transmission facilities.
            (9) Transmission system.--The term ``transmission system''
        means a network of transmission facilities used for the
        transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce.

SEC. 3. RULEMAKING TO EXPEDITE GENERATOR INTERCONNECTION PROCEDURES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Commission shall initiate a rulemaking--
            (1) to address the inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of
        existing procedures for processing interconnection requests to
        ensure that new generation projects and energy storage projects
        can interconnect quickly, cost-effectively, and reliably; and
            (2) to revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection
        Procedures and, as appropriate, the pro forma Large Generator
        Interconnection Agreement, promulgated pursuant to section
        35.28(f) of title 18, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor
        regulations), to require transmission providers--
                    (A) to develop and employ modeling assumptions for
                each resource type based on actual operating abilities
                and practices, for the purposes of studying an
                interconnection request;
                    (B) to study interconnection requests in a manner
                consistent with the risk tolerance of the
                interconnection customer;
                    (C) to select, as appropriate, 1 or more cost-
                effective solutions to address network reliability
                needs that may be identified while studying an
                interconnection request;
                    (D) to provide sufficient information to
                interconnection customers for the interconnection
                customers to understand how a transmission provider has
                implemented the assumptions and solutions described in
                subparagraphs (A) and (C);
                    (E) to share and employ, as appropriate, queue
                management best practices, including with respect to
                the use of advanced computing technologies, automation,
                and standardized study criteria, in evaluating
                interconnection requests, in order to expedite study
                results; and
                    (F) to implement transparency and performance-
                enhancing measures to ensure timely and cost-conscious
                construction of necessary network upgrades once an
                interconnection agreement has been executed.
    (b) Deadline for Final Rule.--Not later than 18 months after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate a final
rule to complete the rulemaking initiated under subsection (a).
    (c) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this section alters, or may be
construed to alter, the allocation of costs of the transmission system
pursuant to the ratemaking authority of the Commission under section
205 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824d).
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