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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1327
To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to establish a shared
savings incentive to return a portion of the savings attributable to an
investment in grid-enhancing technology to the developer of that grid-
enhancing technology, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL8, 2025
Mr. W
ELCH(for himself and Mr. KING) introduced the following bill; which
was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
A BILL
To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to
establish a shared savings incentive to return a portion
of the savings attributable to an investment in grid-
enhancing technology to the developer of that grid-en-
hancing technology, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Advancing Grid-En-4
hancing Technologies Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘Advancing 5
GETs Act of 2025’’. 6
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 1
In this Act: 2
(1) C
OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 3
means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 4
(2) G
RID-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY .—The term 5
‘‘grid-enhancing technology’’ means any hardware or 6
software that— 7
(A) increases the capacity, efficiency, reli-8
ability, resilience, or safety of transmission fa-9
cilities and transmission technologies; and 10
(B) is installed in addition to transmission 11
facilities and transmission technologies— 12
(i) to give operators of the trans-13
mission facilities and transmission tech-14
nologies more situational awareness and 15
control over the electric grid; 16
(ii) to make the transmission facilities 17
and transmission technologies more effi-18
cient; or 19
(iii) to increase the transfer capacity 20
of the transmission facilities and trans-21
mission technologies. 22
(3) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 23
the Secretary of Energy. 24
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SEC. 3. SHARED SAVINGS INCENTIVE FOR GRID-ENHANC-1
ING TECHNOLOGIES. 2
(a) D
EFINITION OFDEVELOPER.—In this section, 3
the term ‘‘developer’’, with respect to grid-enhancing tech-4
nology, means the entity that pays to install the grid-en-5
hancing technology. 6
(b) E
STABLISHMENT OF SHAREDSAVINGSINCEN-7
TIVE.—Not later than 18 months after the date of enact-8
ment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate a final 9
rule to implement section 219(b)(3) of the Federal Power 10
Act (16 U.S.C. 824s(b)(3)) by providing a shared savings 11
incentive that returns a portion of the savings attributable 12
to an investment in grid-enhancing technology to the de-13
veloper of that grid-enhancing technology, in accordance 14
with this section. 15
(c) R
EQUIREMENTS.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall deter-17
mine the percentage of savings attributable to an in-18
vestment in grid-enhancing technology that can be 19
returned to the developer of that grid-enhancing 20
technology pursuant to the shared savings incentive 21
established under subsection (b), subject to the con-22
ditions that the percentage— 23
(A) is not less than 10 percent and not 24
more than 25 percent; 25
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(B) is not determined on a per-project, 1
per-investment, or case-by-case basis; and 2
(C) is applied consistently to all invest-3
ments in grid-enhancing technology eligible for 4
the shared savings incentive, regardless of the 5
type of grid-enhancing technology installed. 6
(2) T
IME PERIOD FOR RECOVERY .—The shared 7
savings incentive established under subsection (b) 8
shall return a percentage, determined in accordance 9
with paragraph (1), of the applicable savings to the 10
developer of the applicable grid-enhancing tech-11
nology over a period of 3 years. 12
(d) E
LIGIBILITY.—Subject to subsection (e), the 13
shared savings incentive established under subsection (b) 14
shall apply with respect to— 15
(1) any developer, with respect to the invest-16
ment of that developer in grid-enhancing technology 17
that is installed as described in section 2(2)(B); and 18
(2) any grid-enhancing technology, including— 19
(A) grid-enhancing technology that relates 20
to new transmission facilities or transmission 21
technologies; and 22
(B) grid-enhancing technology that relates 23
to existing transmission facilities or trans-24
mission technologies. 25
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(e) LIMITATIONS.— 1
(1) M
INIMUM SAVINGS.— 2
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The shared savings in-3
centive established under subsection (b) shall 4
apply with respect to an investment in grid-en-5
hancing technology only if the expected savings 6
attributable to the investment over the 3-year 7
period described in subsection (c)(2), as deter-8
mined by the Commission, are at least 4 times 9
the cost of the investment. 10
(B) D
ETERMINATION.— 11
(i) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission 12
shall determine how to quantify the cost of 13
an investment and the expected savings at-14
tributable to an investment for purposes of 15
subparagraph (A). 16
(ii) C
OSTS.—For purposes of subpara-17
graph (A), the cost of an investment may 18
include any costs associated with the per-19
mitting, installation, or purchase of the ap-20
plicable grid-enhancing technology. 21
(2) A
LREADY INSTALLED GETS .—The shared 22
savings incentive established under subsection (b) 23
may not be applied with respect to grid-enhancing 24
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technology that is already installed as of the date of 1
enactment of this Act. 2
(3) C
ONSUMER PROTECTION .—The Commission 3
shall determine appropriate consumer protections for 4
the shared savings incentive established under sub-5
section (b). 6
(f) E
VALUATION AND SUNSET OFSHAREDSAVINGS 7
I
NCENTIVE.— 8
(1) E
VALUATION.—Not earlier than 7 years, 9
and not later than 10 years, after the shared savings 10
incentive is established under subsection (b), the 11
Commission shall— 12
(A) evaluate the necessity and efficacy of 13
the shared savings incentive; and 14
(B) determine whether to maintain, revise, 15
or suspend the shared savings incentive. 16
(2) C
ONSIDERATION OF ORDER NO . 1920.—In 17
conducting the evaluation under paragraph (1)(A), 18
the Commission shall consider— 19
(A) how the shared savings incentive aligns 20
with the requirement that grid-enhancing tech-21
nologies be considered in long-term regional 22
transmission planning under Order No. 1920 of 23
the Commission, entitled ‘‘Building for the Fu-24
ture Through Electric Regional Transmission 25
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Planning and Cost Allocation’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 1
49280 (June 11, 2024)) (or a successor order); 2
(B) whether and how the shared savings 3
incentive should be revised to further align with 4
that requirement; and 5
(C) whether, in light of that requirement, 6
the shared savings incentive should be main-7
tained or suspended. 8
(3) P
UBLIC COMMENT.—In conducting the eval-9
uation under paragraph (1)(A), the Commission 10
shall provide an opportunity for public comment, in-11
cluding by stakeholders. 12
SEC. 4. CONGESTION REPORTING. 13
(a) A
NNUALREPORTS.— 14
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Beginning on the date that 15
is 1 year after the effective date of the rule promul-16
gated under subsection (b), all operators of trans-17
mission facilities or transmission technologies shall 18
submit to the Commission annual reports containing 19
data on the costs associated with congestion man-20
agement with respect to the transmission facilities or 21
transmission technologies, including all relevant con-22
straints. 23
(2) R
EQUIREMENT.—Each annual report sub-24
mitted under paragraph (1) shall identify— 25
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(A) with respect to each reported con-1
straint that caused more than $500,000 in as-2
sociated costs— 3
(i) the cause of the constraint, includ-4
ing physical infrastructure and transient 5
disruptions; and 6
(ii) the next limiting element type and 7
its identified rating limit; and 8
(B) each constraint that will be addressed 9
by planned future upgrades to infrastructure 10
and facilities. 11
(b) R
ULEMAKING.—Not later than 18 months after 12
the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall 13
promulgate a final rule establishing a universal metric and 14
protocol for the measuring and reporting of data under 15
subsection (a). 16
(c) U
SES OFDATA.— 17
(1) A
NALYSES.— 18
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission and 19
the Secretary shall each use the data submitted 20
under subsection (a) to conduct analyses, as the 21
Commission or the Secretary, as applicable, de-22
termines to be appropriate. 23
(B) C
OORDINATION.—The Commission 24
and the Secretary may coordinate with respect 25
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to any analyses conducted using the data sub-1
mitted under subsection (a). 2
(2) M
AP.—The Commission and the Secretary, 3
acting jointly, shall— 4
(A) use the data submitted under sub-5
section (a) to create a map of costs associated 6
with congestion management in the trans-7
mission system; and 8
(B) update that map not less frequently 9
than once each year. 10
(d) P
UBLICATION OFDATA ANDMAP.—The Com-11
mission and the Secretary shall make the data submitted 12
under subsection (a) and the map described in subsection 13
(c)(2) publicly available on the websites of— 14
(1) the Commission; and 15
(2) the Department of Energy. 16
SEC. 5. GRID-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION 17
GUIDE. 18
(a) D
EFINITION OFDEVELOPER.—In this section, 19
the term ‘‘developer’’ means a developer of transmission 20
facilities or transmission technologies, including a devel-21
oper of transmission facilities or transmission technologies 22
that pays to install grid-enhancing technology with respect 23
to those transmission facilities or transmission tech-24
nologies. 25
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(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF APPLICATIONGUIDE.—Not 1
later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this 2
Act, the Secretary shall establish an application guide for 3
utilities and developers seeking to implement grid-enhanc-4
ing technologies. 5
(c) U
PDATES.—The guide established under sub-6
section (b) shall be reviewed and updated annually. 7
(d) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—On request of a utility or de-9
veloper using the guide established under subsection 10
(b), the Secretary shall provide technical assistance 11
to that utility or developer with respect to the use 12
of grid-enhancing technologies for particular applica-13
tions. 14
(2) C
LEARINGHOUSE.—In carrying out para-15
graph (1), the Secretary shall establish a clearing-16
house of previously completed grid-enhancing tech-17
nology projects that the Secretary, utilities, and de-18
velopers may use to identify issues and solutions re-19
lating to the use of grid-enhancing technologies for 20
particular applications. 21
(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 22
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 23
to remain available until expended— 24
(1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and 25
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(2) $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 1
through 2036. 2
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