24 Nov
November 24, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) — Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) filed comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) on the interconnection of large loads, urging the Commission to explicitly pair any reforms to load interconnection with urgent action to expand high-capacity regional and interregional transmission.
ACEG’s comments commend FERC and the Department of Energy for recognizing the rapidly growing demands from data centers, AI clusters, industrial facilities, and other large loads, but warn that the proposal omits the single most important ingredient required to interconnect them at scale: a grid capable of delivering the power they need.
Without new multi-value transmission, ACEG cautions, any policy to accelerate large-load interconnections will be undermined by the same bottlenecks that have slowed generation interconnection for more than a decade.
“You simply cannot interconnect 21st-century loads to a 20th-century grid,” said Christina Hayes, executive director of ACEG. “The fastest, most affordable way to support new data centers, industrial growth, and U.S. leadership in AI is to build needed transmission to make the most of every electron.”
ACEG’s filing underscores three key priorities:
- Build the transmission required for new large loads – FERC cannot accelerate large-load interconnection without expanding the high-capacity regional and interregional lines needed to serve them. Order No. 1920 provides the framework, now it must be implemented quickly.
- Strengthen load forecasting – Today’s large loads are fast-moving and location-flexible. ACEG urges region-wide, accurate forecasting to ensure planners size transmission correctly.
- Use benefits-based cost allocation – Reverting to 100% participant funding would recreate the same interconnection bottlenecks FERC is trying to solve. ACEG supports continuing the Order No. 1920 approach so costs are shared in proportion to defined benefits.
Read the full comment here.
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About Americans for a Clean Energy Grid:
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) is a non-profit, broad-based public interest advocacy coalition focused on the need to expand, integrate, and modernize the North American high-capacity grid. ACEG brings together a diverse coalition — including business, labor, consumer, environmental groups, and other transmission supporters — to advocate for policies that recognize the benefits of a robust transmission grid.
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