S. 465 · 119th Congress

GRID Power Act

Introduced on Feb 6, 2025 by John Hoeven (R-ND). 4 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Sep 30, 2026): Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 6, 2025
Cosponsors
4
0 from the other party
Policy area
Energy
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization and approval of certain projects, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Energy efficiency and conservation
  • Energy storage, supplies, demand

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, Feb 6, 2025). Public domain.

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 resource adequacy can interconnect to the electric grid quickly, cost-effectively, and reliably.

Second, the rule must revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures, and the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement as appropriate, to authorize transmission providers to submit proposals to FERC to prioritize new dispatchable power projects that will improve grid reliability and resource adequacy by assigning those projects higher positions in the interconnection queue of the provider. FERC must review and approve or deny such proposals within 60 days after the proposal is submitted.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

John HoevenR-NDSponsor

Republicans · 4

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Feb 6, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Feb 6, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  3. Apr 15, 2026 · SenateCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-366.
  4. Sep 30, 2026 · SenateCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. American Foundry Society6 reports
    $180K reported (all issues)
  2. EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE4 reports
    $4.2M reported (all issues)
  3. Spearmint Renewable Development Company4 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)
  4. Shell USA, Inc. (fka Shell Oil Company)3 reports
    $4M reported (all issues)
  5. AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC. AND AFFILIATED CORPORATIONS2 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)
  6. AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $550K reported (all issues)
  7. CMS ENERGY CORPORATION2 reports
    $530K reported (all issues)
  8. DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION2 reports
    $4.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS, LLC$17.5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  9. Entergy Services, LLC2 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)
  10. FIRSTENERGY CORP.2 reports
    $910K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: FIRSTENERGY PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY$5.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  11. NATIONAL GRID USA2 reports
    $710K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL GRID USA SERVICE COMPANY, INC.$19M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 98%
  12. PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.2 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$189.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  13. PPL Corporation2 reports
    $280K reported (all issues)
  14. PUGET SOUND ENERGY INC.2 reports
    $590K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PUGET SOUND ENERGY INC$1.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  15. XCEL ENERGY2 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)
  16. CORE NATURAL RESOURCES, INC.1 report
    $290K reported (all issues)
  17. National Mining Association1 report
    $820K reported (all issues)
  18. PINNACLE WEST CAPITAL CORPORATION1 report
    $200K reported (all issues)
  19. SMA Solar Technology AG1 report
    $50K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.