HR 1047 · 119th Congress · Energy

GRID Power Act

Introduced 2025-02-06· Sponsored by Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12]· House

Bill Progress

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Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.(2025-09-19)

Recorded Votes

PassedHouse · 2025-09-18
Roll #279
Yea 216Nay 206
Democrats
5 Yea·205 Nay
Republicans
211 Yea·1 Nay
PassedHouse · 2025-09-18
Roll #279
Yea 216Nay 206
Democrats
5 Yea·205 Nay
Republicans
211 Yea·1 Nay

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Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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 resourc…

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H.R. 1047, GRID Power Act

Sep 24, 2025

As passed by the House of Representatives on September 18, 2025

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Cosponsors (17)

17 Republicans