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Senate Utilities Committee urges federal action to unclog interconnection queues
Summary
The Senate Utilities Committee unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 3 urging federal regulators and Indiana’s congressional delegation to adopt changes that speed interconnection approvals at regional transmission organizations and reduce speculative projects in queue backlogs.
The Senate Utilities Committee voted 10-0 to pass House Concurrent Resolution 3, a nonbinding measure asking federal regulators and Indiana’s congressional delegation to address lengthy interconnection queues at regional transmission organizations such as MISO and PJM.
Representative Soliday, who introduced the resolution, told the committee the measure aims to “unjam the queue” and push federal partners to consider a priority system that would speed approval for projects needed to meet firm loads. Soliday said the current first-come, first-served approach can lock valuable transmission capacity for years and cited examples in which developers hold positions in the queue without completing projects.
The resolution asks the Federal Energy Regulatory…
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