Indiana 2025 Regular Session

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1	1		HC1004
2		-	~~February 14~~, 2025
	2	+	January 21, 2025
3	3		HOUSE CONCURRENT
4	4		RESOLUTION No. 3
5	5		DIGEST OF RESOLUTION
6	6		A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging regional
7	7		transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory
8	8		Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the
9	9		North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the
10	10		United States Congress to take such actions as necessary to
11	11		enact reform processes to expedite the approval of electric
12	12		transmission and generation projects.
13	13		Soliday
14		-	(SENATE SPONSOR — KOCH)
15	14		January 8, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and
16	15		Telecommunications.
17	16		January 21, 2025, reported — Do Pass.
18		-	January 27, 2025, read second time, passed. Yeas 71, nays 23.
19		-	SENATE ACTION
20		-	January 30, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities.
21		-	February 13, 2025, reported favorably — Do Pass.
22		-	HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 February 14, 2025
	17	+	HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 January 21, 2025
23	18		First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
24	19		HOUSE CONCURRENT
25	20		RESOLUTION No. 3
26	21		1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging regional
27	22		2 transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory
28	23		3 Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the
29	24		4 North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the
30	25		5 United States Congress to take such actions as necessary to
31	26		6 enact reform processes to expedite the approval of electric
32	27		7 transmission and generation projects.
33	28		8 Whereas, The Indiana General Assembly has established
34	29		9 energy policy based on balancing the "Five Pillars"
35	30		10 instrumental to the state's long term energy goals: reliability,
36	31		11 affordability, resiliency, stability, and environmental
37	32		12 sustainability;
38	33		13 Whereas, Energy demand is accelerating across Indiana and
39	34		14 the Midwest because of growth in data centers, advanced
40	35		15 manufacturing, and other economic development projects;
41	36		16 Whereas, Indiana's regulatory framework has established the
42	37		17 Hoosier State as a highly desirable location for economic
43	38		18 development projects;
44	39		19 Whereas, The ability to quickly develop and build additive
45	40		20 energy infrastructure, including generation and transmission,
46	41		21 is critical to the economic development and electric resource
47	42		22 adequacy of Indiana and the Midwest;
48	43		23 Whereas, Regional transmission organizations' current
49	44		24 generator interconnection review processes are overwhelmed
50	45		25 with requests for new resource interconnections, such that the
51	46		26 current process has become unworkable, and a process initially
52	47		HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 2
53	48		1 designed to take months to complete now takes many years to
54	49		2 complete before incremental transmission infrastructure and
55	50		3 generation can be added to the grid;
56	51		4 Whereas, Regional transmission organizations play a critical
57	52		5 role in analyzing the addition of transmission infrastructure
58	53		6 and dispatchable generation for large load demand additions;
59	54		7 Whereas, The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has
60	55		8 long had regulatory responsibility for assuring generation
61	56		9 resource adequacy for retail electric customers;
62	57		10 Whereas, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has
63	58		11 authority to amend regulations and approve tariff changes to
64	59		12 grant regional transmission organizations the flexibility to
65	60		13 adjust interconnection queue priorities based on resource
66	61		14 reliability attributes, grid reliability, and resilience needs; and
67	62		15 Whereas, Indiana's load serving entities, consisting of those
68	63		16 electric utilities with a statutory obligation to serve their
69	64		17 jurisdictional customers and plan for future load growth
70	65		18 through an integrated resource planning process, and the
71	66		19 Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission are best positioned to
72	67		20 understand and respond to the needs of the electric system and
73	68		21 large load additions to the system: Therefore,
74	69		22 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives
75	70		23 of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,
76	71		24 the Senate concurring:
77	72		25 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly urges the
78	73		26 regional transmission organizations that operate facilities in
79	74		27 Indiana to take the necessary steps to prioritize transmission and
80	75		28 generation additions proposed by Indiana's load serving entities
81	76		29 and specifically determined by the Indiana Utility Regulatory
82	77		30 Commission as necessary for resource adequacy.
83	78		31 SECTION 2. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
84	79		32 that solutions must include the establishment of an expedited
85	80		33 interconnection review process for Indiana's load serving
86	81		34 entities consistent with their integrated resource plans.
87	82		35 SECTION 3. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
88	83		36 that solutions must also include an expedited interconnection
89	84		37 review process for dispatchable resources that is critical to
90	85		38 serving growing load requirements around the clock and that is
91	86		HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 3
92	87		1 consistent with the Five Pillars of Indiana's energy policy.
93	88		2 SECTION 4. That the Indiana General Assembly determines
94	89		3 that solutions must also include an expedited interconnection
95	90		4 review process for incremental generation added at existing
96	91		5 generation stations where an electric utility plans to use a
97	92		6 generator replacement review process.
98	93		7 SECTION 5. That the Indiana General Assembly urges
99	94		8 regional transmission organizations, the Federal Energy
100	95		9 Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of
101	96		10 Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation,
102	97		11 and the United States Congress to take such actions as are
103	98		12 necessary to enact reform processes to expedite the approval of
104	99		13 electric transmission and generation projects to promote
105	100		14 Indiana's economic development through the approval and
106	101		15 implementation of these solutions.
107	102		16 SECTION 6. That the Principal Clerk of the House of
108	103		17 Representatives shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the
109	104		18 presiding officers of the Senate and the House of
110	105		19 Representatives of the United States Congress, each member of
111	106		20 the Indiana Congressional delegation, the Federal Energy
112	107		21 Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of
113	108		22 Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation,
114	109		23 the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, and the PJM
115	110		24 Interconnection.
116	111		HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140 4
117	112		COMMITTEE REPORT
118	113		Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Utilities, Energy and
119	114		Telecommunications, to which was referred House Concurrent
120	115		Resolution 3, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to
121	116		report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said
122	117		resolution do pass.
123	118		(Reference is to HC 3 as printed January 8, 2025.)
124	119		SOLIDAY
125	120		Committee Vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2
126		-	_____
127		-	COMMITTEE REPORT
128		-	Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Utilities, to which was
129		-	referred House Concurrent Resolution No. 3, has had the same under
130		-	consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with
131		-	the recommendation that said resolution DO PASS.
132		-	(Reference is to HC 3 as printed January 21, 2025.)
133		-
134		-	KOCH, Chairperson
135		-	Committee Vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0
136	121		HC 3—HC 1004/DI 140