Bill to fast-track power plants gains broader support
Washington,
February 6, 2025
This article was originally published by Axios Pro.
Zoom in: The bill would require FERC to initiate a rulemaking to put a priority on "dispatchable" power plants — a term that generally excludes intermittent wind and solar.
Mark Christie, whom Trump named FERC chairman last month, has expressed support for the idea.
The big picture: Roughly 2,600 gigawatts of project proposals — more than twice the power capacity currently supplying the grid — were in the interconnection queue at the end of 2023, DOE estimated.
What they're saying: The interconnection queue is a "logjam of renewable projects," Balderson told Axios ahead of the reintroduction.
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