Improve long-term planning for America's electric grid to reduce costly outages, strengthen reliability during extreme weather, and keep electricity affordable.

The bill improves long-term planning for America’s electric grid, helping reduce costly outages, strengthen reliability during extreme weather, and keep electricity affordable for families in Sacramento and communities across the country.

Matsui promoted the SECURE Grid Act as legislation to strengthen grid planning, reduce outages, improve reliability during extreme weather, and keep power affordable.

HOUSE PASSES MATSUI’S BILL TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S ENERGY GRID | Congresswoman Doris Matsui
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FERC issued tailored show-cause orders to all six regional grid operators, directing them to justify or reform rules for connecting data centers, manufacturing facilities, and other large loads; FERC said the action aims to ensure reliable, affordable power while protecting ratepayers, with 60-day tariff responses and 30-day generation-adequacy reports.

Within the lookback window, FERC took new official action on large-load grid integration and ratepayer safeguards. It is relevant to reliability and affordability, but it is still a process order rather than completed delivery.

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FERC Launches Aggressive Targeted Action to Speed Large Load Integration
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FERC staff described Order No. 1920 as requiring transmission providers to conduct long-term, forward-looking regional transmission planning; plan ahead at least 20 years; update planning at least every five years; and evaluate reliability and economic benefits including mitigation of extreme weather events and unexpected system conditions.

FERC Order No. 1920 directly addresses the core promise: long-term electric transmission planning, reliability, extreme weather, cost-effective infrastructure, and customer cost impacts.

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Staff Presentation | Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
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FERC said Order No. 1920-A largely sustained Order No. 1920's requirement for Long-Term Regional Transmission Planning, while clarifying requirements and strengthening state involvement in scenario development and cost allocation.

The rehearing order kept the long-term planning framework in force and refined cost-allocation and state-input mechanisms, supporting continued implementation rather than reversal.

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Presentation | Order No. 1920-A, Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
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FERC staff said the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act amended Federal Power Act section 216 to clarify that FERC may issue permits for electric transmission facilities in National Corridors if a state has denied a siting application; the final rule updated FERC's transmission-siting permit regulations.

This supports the broader grid-delivery side of the promise by easing federal backstop siting for transmission facilities, though it does not itself prove completed transmission construction or lower bills.

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Staff Presentation | Applications for Permits to Site Interstate Electric Transmission Facilities
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 369 on H.R. 3684, the INVEST in America Act / Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as passed 228-206 on Nov. 5, 2021; Rep. Doris Matsui is recorded as voting Yea.

Matsui took concrete legislative action for the enacted infrastructure law that funded and authorized major federal grid resilience, transmission, and siting programs. This is serious effort tied to the promise area.

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Roll Call 369 | Bill Number: H.R. 3684
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GovInfo records Public Law 117-58, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, enacted Nov. 15, 2021. The law includes federal energy infrastructure provisions, including grid infrastructure and resiliency programs and transmission-related authorities.

The enacted law provides statutory support for grid resilience and transmission work, but it is broader than the specific long-term-planning commitment and does not by itself show final outage or affordability results.

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Public Law 117-58, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
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