PFT to FERC: Traditionally Regulated Utilities are Connecting Large Loads—Don't Fix What Isn't Broken

Power for Tomorrow (PFT) has responded to the Department of Energy's proposal to FERC to speed up how the largest new electricity users, particularly data centers, connect to the grid. While PFT agrees the surge in large energy demand is a growing challenge in some regions, PFT argues that traditionally regulated utilities are best equipped to manage large load growth and interconnection. These utilities and their state regulators are already using proven tools—like resource planning and cost-allocation—to add large customers cost-effectively and without hurting reliability, ensuring that residential customers are protected. 

PFT urges FERC to respect state authority, make sure that any new federal policy protects reliability and affordability, and take care not to harm what is clearly working in many traditionally regulated states—the places where data centers are choosing to locate.

Read the full comments here.