The GRID Power Act requires FERC to prioritize interconnection requests for dispatchable power projects—generation sources that can provide predictable, controllable electricity. It allows transmission providers to fast-track reliable power projects in interconnection queues to improve grid reliability. FERC must review prioritization proposals within 60 days.
Latest Action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
AI Summary
Plain-English explanation of this bill
The GRID Power Act requires FERC to prioritize interconnection requests for dispatchable power projects—generation sources that can provide predictable, controllable electricity. It allows transmission providers to fast-track reliable power projects in interconnection queues to improve grid reliability. FERC must review prioritization proposals within 60 days.
Last updated: 12/30/2025
Official Summary
Congressional Research Service summary
<p><strong>Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act or the GRID Power Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue a rule that revises the prioritization and approval process for interconnection requests for dispatchable power projects. (Under the bill,<em> d</em><em>ispatchable power</em> generally refers to an an electric energy generation resource capable of providing known and forecastable electric supply in time intervals necessary to ensure grid reliability.)</p><p>First, the rule must address the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing procedures for processing interconnection requests for new dispatchable power projects to ensure that new projects that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy can interconnect to the electric grid quickly, cost-effectively, and reliably. </p><p>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 adjust the interconnection queue of the provider to prioritize new dispatchable power projects that will improve grid reliability and resource adequacy by assigning those projects a higher positions in the queue. FERC must review and approve or deny such proposals within 60 days after the proposal is submitted.</p>
Key Points
Main provisions of the bill
Prioritizes dispatchable power interconnection requests
Addresses grid reliability and resource adequacy
FERC must review proposals within 60 days
Allows queue adjustments for reliable power projects
As the electric grid adds more intermittent renewable energy, maintaining reliable dispatchable power becomes critical. Current interconnection queues have long backlogs that can delay new power plants for years. This bill prioritizes projects that provide on-demand power generation, potentially accelerating natural gas, nuclear, and other dispatchable resources while renewable projects wait longer. This reflects concerns about grid reliability during extreme weather events and peak demand periods.
Policy Areas
Primary Policy Area
Energy
Related Subjects
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Scope & Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction Level
federal
Congressional Session
119th Congress
Citation Reference
1047, 119th Congress (2025). "GRID Power Act". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-hr-1047
