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“The Energy Department should study whether AI and high-performance computers could speed up reviews for connecting new power plants and large electricity users to the grid.”
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“Transmission providers should give project customers enough information to understand how study assumptions and chosen grid fixes were applied to their connection requests.”
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“Power sources should qualify for grid-connection priority only if they can provide predictable electricity during the times needed to keep the electric grid reliable.”
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“The federal government should reform how new power plants wait in line to connect to the electric grid, so reliable power sources can get online faster.”
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“The updated federal grid connection process should cover new power generation projects and energy storage projects, including a broad range of storage technologies and some storage-related changes to existing equipment.”
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“FERC should change the large-generator connection process so qualifying dispatchable power projects that improve reliability and resource adequacy can connect to the grid faster, at reasonable cost, and in a reliable way.”
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“FERC should have to start writing updated grid connection procedures within 180 days and finish the final version within 18 months.”
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“Federal regulators should speed grid connection for new power projects and batteries, cancel certain fast-track processes that favored gas and coal, strengthen oversight of wholesale power markets, limit costly queue jumping, and improve public grid performance information.”
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“Transmission providers should use and share good methods for moving grid connection requests through the waiting line, including advanced computing, automation, and common study criteria when appropriate.”
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“After a grid connection agreement is signed, transmission providers should track needed network upgrades and use performance measures aimed at building them on time and with attention to cost.”
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“Transmission providers should study grid connection requests using assumptions that match how each resource operates, account for the project customer's stated risk tolerance, and choose cost-effective fixes for reliability problems when appropriate.”
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“Updates to the grid connection process should leave FERC's existing authority and rules for deciding who pays transmission system costs unchanged.”
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“Covered grid operators should regularly tell FERC about grid reliability, grid resilience, and any times they used dispatchable-power priority to move projects in the connection line.”
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