Advancing GETs Act of 2025

This bill requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to create a shared savings incentive that returns a portion of the savings from investments in grid-enhancing technologies to the developer who pays to install them. It also mandates congestion reporting and an application guide for such technologies.

Sec. 2, Definitions: Defines key terms. "Grid-enhancing technology" means hardware or software that increases capacity, efficiency, reliability, resilience, or safety of transmission facilities and is installed to give operators more situational awareness, make facilities more efficient, or increase transfer capacity. "Commission" means FERC, and "Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy.

Sec. 3, Shared savings incentive for grid-enhancing technologies: Within 18 months of enactment, FERC must issue a final rule creating a shared savings incentive under the Federal Power Act. The incentive returns 10% to 25% of savings to the developer, applied consistently to all eligible investments, not on a per-project basis. Savings are returned over 3 years. Eligibility requires expected savings over 3 years to be at least 4 times the investment cost. The incentive does not apply to technologies already installed as of enactment. FERC must determine consumer protections. After 7 to 10 years, FERC must evaluate the incentive and decide whether to maintain, revise, or suspend it, considering alignment with FERC Order No. 1920 and allowing public comment.

Sec. 4, Congestion reporting: One year after the rule's effective date, all transmission facility operators must submit annual reports to FERC on congestion management costs, including constraints. Reports must identify constraints causing over $500,000 in costs, their cause, the next limiting element type and rating limit, and constraints addressed by planned upgrades. Within 18 months, FERC must issue a rule establishing a universal metric and protocol for reporting. FERC and the Secretary must use the data for analyses and jointly create and annually update a public map of congestion costs. Data and map must be publicly available on FERC and Department of Energy websites.

Sec. 5, Grid-enhancing technology application guide: Within 18 months of enactment, the Secretary must establish an application guide for utilities and developers seeking to implement grid-enhancing technologies. The guide must be reviewed and updated annually. On request, the Secretary must provide technical assistance and establish a clearinghouse of completed projects. Authorized appropriations are $5 million for fiscal year 2025 and $1 million for each fiscal year 2026 through 2029.