*HC1004*
January 21, 2025
HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION No. 3
DIGEST OF RESOLUTION
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging regional
transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the
United States Congress to take such actions as necessary to
enact reform processes to expedite the approval of electric
transmission and generation projects.
Soliday
January 8, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and
Telecommunications.
January 21, 2025, reported — Do Pass.
HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 January 21, 2025
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION No. 3
1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging regional
2 transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory
3 Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the
4 North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the
5 United States Congress to take such actions as necessary to
6 enact reform processes to expedite the approval of electric
7 transmission and generation projects.
8 Whereas, The Indiana General Assembly has established
9 energy policy based on balancing the "Five Pillars"
10 instrumental to the state's long term energy goals: reliability,
11 affordability, resiliency, stability, and environmental
12 sustainability;
13 Whereas, Energy demand is accelerating across Indiana and
14 the Midwest because of growth in data centers, advanced
15 manufacturing, and other economic development projects;
16 Whereas, Indiana's regulatory framework has established the
17 Hoosier State as a highly desirable location for economic
18 development projects;
19 Whereas, The ability to quickly develop and build additive
20 energy infrastructure, including generation and transmission,
21 is critical to the economic development and electric resource
22 adequacy of Indiana and the Midwest;
23 Whereas, Regional transmission organizations' current
24 generator interconnection review processes are overwhelmed
25 with requests for new resource interconnections, such that the
26 current process has become unworkable, and a process initially
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1 designed to take months to complete now takes many years to
2 complete before incremental transmission infrastructure and
3 generation can be added to the grid;
4 Whereas, Regional transmission organizations play a critical
5 role in analyzing the addition of transmission infrastructure
6 and dispatchable generation for large load demand additions;
7 Whereas, The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has
8 long had regulatory responsibility for assuring generation
9 resource adequacy for retail electric customers;
10 Whereas, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has
11 authority to amend regulations and approve tariff changes to
12 grant regional transmission organizations the flexibility to
13 adjust interconnection queue priorities based on resource
14 reliability attributes, grid reliability, and resilience needs; and
15 Whereas, Indiana's load serving entities, consisting of those
16 electric utilities with a statutory obligation to serve their
17 jurisdictional customers and plan for future load growth
18 through an integrated resource planning process, and the
19 Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission are best positioned to
20 understand and respond to the needs of the electric system and
21 large load additions to the system: Therefore,
22 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives
23 of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,
24 the Senate concurring:
25 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly urges the
26 regional transmission organizations that operate facilities in
27 Indiana to take the necessary steps to prioritize transmission and
28 generation additions proposed by Indiana's load serving entities
29 and specifically determined by the Indiana Utility Regulatory
30 Commission as necessary for resource adequacy.
31 SECTION 2. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
32 that solutions must include the establishment of an expedited
33 interconnection review process for Indiana's load serving
34 entities consistent with their integrated resource plans.
35 SECTION 3. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
36 that solutions must also include an expedited interconnection
37 review process for dispatchable resources that is critical to
38 serving growing load requirements around the clock and that is
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1 consistent with the Five Pillars of Indiana's energy policy.
2 SECTION 4. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
3 that solutions must also include an expedited interconnection
4 review process for incremental generation added at existing
5 generation stations where an electric utility plans to use a
6 generator replacement review process.
7 SECTION 5. That the Indiana General Assembly urges
8 regional transmission organizations, the Federal Energy
9 Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of
10 Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation,
11 and the United States Congress to take such actions as are
12 necessary to enact reform processes to expedite the approval of
13 electric transmission and generation projects to promote
14 Indiana's economic development through the approval and
15 implementation of these solutions.
16 SECTION 6. That the Principal Clerk of the House of
17 Representatives shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the
18 presiding officers of the Senate and the House of
19 Representatives of the United States Congress, each member of
20 the Indiana Congressional delegation, the Federal Energy
21 Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of
22 Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation,
23 the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, and the PJM
24 Interconnection.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Utilities, Energy and
Telecommunications, to which was referred House Concurrent
Resolution 3, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to
report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said
resolution do pass.
(Reference is to HC 3 as printed January 8, 2025.)
SOLIDAY
Committee Vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2
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