Ever since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) signaled in June 2022 that it was considering requiring updates to transmission providers’ generator interconnection procedures, energy law practitioners have been weighing in, waiting, and wondering: how (and how much) will existing interconnection processes change? To what degree will the new processes vary, both from each other and from FERC’s pro forma tariff? And of course: will the queue backlogs finally clear? In the months since FERC issued Order No. 2023 in July 2023, speculation has only grown.
