Expediting Generator Interconnection Procedures Act of 2025
The Expediting Generator Interconnection Procedures Act of 2025 would require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to promptly undertake a rulemaking to overhaul how new electric generation and energy storage projects interconnect to the transmission system. Within 180 days of enactment, FERC would begin updating the Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (LGIP) and Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) to make interconnection studies faster, more cost-effective, and clearer for developers. Key changes include resource-type specific modeling based on actual operating capabilities, study methods aligned with a project’s risk tolerance, selection of cost-effective solutions to reliability needs, enhanced transparency about assumptions and results, and updated queue-management practices and performance measures to speed up construction of needed upgrades after an interconnection agreement is signed. A final rule must be issued within 18 months. The bill preserves existing cost-allocation rules under the Federal Power Act (no changes to who pays for upgrades).
Key Points
- 1Requires FERC to start a rulemaking within 180 days to fix inefficiencies in interconnection procedures and revise the LGIP/LGIA to streamline interconnections.
- 2Mandates resource-specific modeling assumptions based on actual operating abilities and practices for studying interconnection requests.
- 3Requires studies to consider the interconnection customer’s risk tolerance and to propose one or more cost-effective solutions to address any identified transmission reliability needs.
- 4obligates transmission providers to provide sufficient information to customers about how assumptions and solutions are applied, and to adopt queue-management best practices, advanced computing, automation, and standardized study criteria to speed up results; includes transparency and performance-enhancing measures for timely, cost-conscious upgrades after an interconnection is agreed.
- 5Final rule due within 18 months; saves clause ensures no change to how costs for the transmission system are allocated under existing FPA authority.