Definitions

Section 3 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796) is amended by adding at the end the following: (30) Energy storage project The term energy storage project means equipment that receives, stores, and delivers energy-using batteries, compressed air, pumped hydropower, hydrogen storage (including hydrolysis), thermal energy storage, regenerative fuel cells, flywheels, capacitors, superconducting magnets, or other technologies identified by the Secretary of Energy. (31) Generating facility The term generating facility means any facility that generates electricity. (32) Generator tie line The term generator tie line means a dedicated transmission line that is used to transmit power from a generating facility or an energy storage project to a transmission facility or a transmission system. (33) Greenhouse gas The term greenhouse gas includes each of the following: (A) Carbon dioxide. (B) Methane. (C) Nitrous oxide. (D) Sulfur hexafluoride. (E) Any hydrofluorocarbon. (F) Any perfluorocarbon. (G) Nitrogen trifluoride. (H) Any fully fluorinated linear, branched, or cyclic— (i) alkane; (ii) ether; (iii) tertiary amine; or (iv) aminoether. (I) Any perfluoropolyether. (J) Any hydrofluoropolyether. (K) Any other fluorocarbon, except for a fluorocarbon with a vapor pressure of less than 1 mm of Hg absolute at 25 degrees Celsius. (34) Advanced transmission technology The term advanced transmission technology means any hardware or software that— (A) increases the capacity, efficiency, reliability, resilience, or safety of transmission facilities and transmission technologies; (B) is installed in addition to new or existing transmission facilities and transmission technologies— (i) to give operators of the transmission facilities and transmission technologies more situational awareness and control over the electric grid; (ii) to make the transmission facilities and transmission technologies more efficient; or (iii) to increase the transfer capacity of the transmission facilities and transmission technologies; and (C) includes, but is not limited to, dynamic line ratings, advanced conductors, topology optimization, advanced power-flow controls, and other digital or physical systems that increase the usable transfer capability of the grid. (35) Interconnection customer The term interconnection customer means an entity, or any affiliates or subsidiaries of an entity, that proposes to interconnect a generating facility or an energy storage project to a transmission facility or transmission system. (36) Transmission benefits The term transmission benefits means the broad range of economic, operational, safety, resilience, public policy, and environmental benefits (as assessed by the Commission in accordance with section 224(e)) and other reasonably anticipated benefits of constructing, modifying, or operating a transmission facility, including— (A) improved reliability; (B) improved resilience; (C) improved safety; (D) reduced congestion; (E) reduced power losses; (F) greater carrying capacity; (G) reduced operating reserve requirements; (H) improved access to lower-cost electricity generation; (I) improved access to electricity generating facilities with no direct emissions of greenhouse gases; (J) improved public health from the closure of electricity generation facilities that emit harmful pollution; (K) increased competition and market liquidity in electricity markets; (L) improved energy resilience and resilience of Department of Defense installations; (M) improved ability to integrate new sources of electrical demand; and (N) other potential benefits of increasing the interconnectedness of the electric grid. (37) Network upgrade The term network upgrade means— (A) any addition to or expansion of any transmission facility or transmission system; (B) the construction of a new transmission facility that will become part of a transmission system; (C) the addition of an energy storage project to a transmission facility or a transmission system; or (D) any construction, deployment, or addition of an advanced transmission technology to a transmission facility or a transmission system that eliminates or reduces the need to carry out any of the activities described in subparagraphs (A) through (C). (38) Participant funding The term participant funding means any cost allocation method under which an interconnection customer is required to pay, without reimbursement, all or a disproportionate amount of the costs of a network upgrade that is determined by the Commission to be necessary to ensure the reliable interconnection of the interconnection customer’s generating facility or energy storage project. (39) Transmission planning region The term transmission planning region means— (A) when used in a geographical sense, a region for which the Commission determines that electric transmission planning is appropriate, such as a region established in accordance with Order No. 1000 of the Commission, entitled ‘Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public Utilities’ (76 Fed. Reg. 49842 (August 11, 2011)); and (B) when used in a corporate sense, means the Transmission Organization or other entity responsible for planning or operating electric transmission facilities within a region described in subparagraph (A). (40) Transmission system For purposes of sections 224 and 227, the term transmission system means a network of transmission facilities used for the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce..