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GRID Power Act
4/17/2026, 1:12 PM
Summary of Bill S 465
The main goal of the bill is to streamline and improve the current interconnection queue process in order to expedite the approval of energy projects. This is seen as crucial in order to meet the growing demand for clean and reliable energy sources in the United States.
The bill requires FERC to implement reforms that will make the interconnection queue process more efficient and transparent. This includes establishing clear timelines for project approval, improving communication between stakeholders, and ensuring that projects are prioritized based on their potential benefits to the energy grid. Additionally, the bill includes provisions to address any potential conflicts of interest within FERC and to ensure that the agency is acting in the best interest of the public. This includes requiring FERC commissioners to recuse themselves from any decisions that may present a conflict of interest. Overall, Bill 119 s 465 aims to modernize the interconnection queue process in order to facilitate the timely approval of energy projects that will benefit the American energy grid. By implementing these reforms, the bill seeks to promote the development of clean and reliable energy sources while ensuring that FERC operates in a fair and transparent manner.
Congressional Summary of S 465
Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act or the GRID Power Act
This bill requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue and periodically review a rule that revises the approval process for interconnection requests of generating units that produce electricity to prioritize dispatchable power projects (e.g., certain fossil fuel projects).
Under the bill, dispatchable power generally refers to an electric energy generation resource, such as a generating unit that produces electricity from fossil fuels, capable of providing known and forecastable electric supply in time intervals necessary to ensure grid reliability. Currently, FERC receives interconnection requests from those projects and other generating units, such as units that produce electricity from renewable energy. Interconnection requests are requests from generating units to connect to the high voltage transmission lines of the electric grid.
First, the rule must address the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing procedures for processing interconnection requests to ensure that new dispatchable power projects that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy can interconnect to the electric grid quickly, cost-effectively, and reliably.
Second, the rule must revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures, and the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement as appropriate, to authorize transmission providers to submit proposals to FERC to prioritize new dispatchable power projects that will improve grid reliability and resource adequacy by assigning those projects higher positions in the interconnection queue of the provider. FERC must review and approve or deny such proposals within 60 days after the proposal is submitted.
