WASHINGTON, D.C. — Right this moment the Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC) affirmed its dedication on key provisions in Order No. 2023, its landmark interconnection ruling.
In July 2023, the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation (SEIA) supported FERC’s proposed interconnection reforms and praised the fee for its efforts to advertise accountability and penalize utilities and transmission homeowners that fail to reply to interconnection requests in a well timed method.
Following is a press release from Melissa Alfano, senior director of vitality markets and counsel for SEIA on the event:
Right this moment the Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC) upheld penalties for utilities and transmission homeowners that fail to course of interconnection purposes in a well timed method. This determination sends a robust message that the Fee is dedicated to implementing significant interconnection reforms that promote equity and accountability.
For the final decade, utilities have slow-walked interconnection purposes and did not make progress on their very own, inflicting an enormous, two-terawatt backlog of photo voltaic and storage belongings ready for permission to hook up with the grid. These new guidelines will set up clear expectations for all events concerned within the interconnection course of and description penalties for inaction.
We commend FERC for sustaining these key provisions in Order No. 2023 and pushing for holistic interconnection reforms that may help a thriving clear vitality economic system. We are going to proceed to work alongside FERC and our members to completely implement Order No. 2023.
About SEIA®
The Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality economic system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to attain 30% of U.S. electrical energy technology by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member corporations and different strategic companions to combat for insurance policies that create jobs in each group and form truthful market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by analysis, schooling and advocacy.
