FERC Mandates Smarter Electric Grid Planning Across Regions
Published Date: 4/28/2025
Rule
Summary
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is making sure electric companies plan better for the future by working together across regions. This means they’ll find smarter, cheaper ways to build and share the costs of big power lines that last a long time. These changes affect transmission providers and could save money while helping us get cleaner energy faster.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Transmission Providers Must Plan Regionally
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requires transmission providers to conduct Long-Term Regional Transmission Planning. That planning must identify, evaluate, and select more efficient or cost-effective regional transmission solutions and allocate the costs to address Long-Term Transmission Needs, per Order No. 1920.
Planning Could Lower Costs and Speed Clean Energy
You could save money and get cleaner energy faster because the rule makes electric companies plan together across regions and share the costs of large, long-lived power lines. The document says these changes affect transmission providers and could save money while helping deliver cleaner energy more quickly.
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