S. 465 119th Congress Senate

GRID Power Act

Official title: A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization and approval of certain projects, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 6, 2025 Introduced by: John Hoeven Republican · North Dakota See on congress.gov

Energy Electric power generation and transmissionEnergy efficiency and conservationEnergy storage, supplies, demand

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Sep 30, 2026

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Apr 15, 2026

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-366.

Apr 15, 2026

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held.

Feb 6, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Feb 6, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

Hearings & markups 2

Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and …
Open Business Meeting Sep 30, 2026 · 10:00 AM EDT · Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue proc…
Meeting Apr 15, 2026 · 2:30 PM EDT · Energy Subcommittee

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Committees of jurisdiction 2

Energy and Natural Resources Committee
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Energy Subcommittee
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Lobbying activity 64

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION
for DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CORE NATURAL RESOURCES, INC.
for CORE NATURAL RESOURCES, INC. · Pennsylvania · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
NATIONAL GRID USA
for NATIONAL GRID USA · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
for CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. · California · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE
for EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
63 filings
SENATE
63 filings
Energy, Dept of
38 filings
Treasury, Dept of
29 filings
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
26 filings
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
22 filings
White House Office
22 filings
Interior, Dept of (DOI)
16 filings

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Cosponsors 4