Court Upholds FERC Clean-Energy Interconnection Reforms

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld FERC Order No. 2023, rejecting challenges to rules intended to reform how new generation and storage projects connect to the power grid. The order requires grid operators to improve queue processes, conduct studies more promptly, and increase transparency amid long delays affecting proposed wind, solar, and battery projects. The ruling preserves FERC's interconnection-reform framework, though projected effects on costs, reliability, and deployment remain contingent on implementation by grid operators and utilities.