Bill > S3287

This bill amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit electric transmission providers serving multiple states from charging consumers in one state for transmission facilities primarily built to implement a policy of another state, unless that consumer's state or its designated public official expressly consents to such cost allocation. Specifically, the bill defines a "covered transmission facility" as any electric transmission infrastructure planned or constructed to implement a state or local policy, and establishes that consumers who do not reside in the state whose policy motivated the facility's construction should not be required to pay for it. The bill creates a presumption that the benefits of such transmission facilities accrue solely to the "cost causers" (essentially, the residents of the state that initiated the policy), and requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue implementation rules within a specified timeframe. This legislation aims to prevent consumers in one state from bearing the financial burden of transmission projects driven by another state's policy preferences, thus protecting ratepayers from potentially unfair interstate electricity infrastructure costs.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3287/all-info