Expediting generator interconnection queues

(a) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall initiate a rulemaking to revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures promulgated pursuant to section 35.28(f) of title 18, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation), to require public utility transmission providers to share and employ, as appropriate, queue management practices with respect to the use of computing technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation, in evaluating and processing interconnection requests, in order to expedite study results with respect to those requests. (b) Requirement The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall reopen the rulemaking under subsection (a) not less frequently than once every 4 years to determine whether additional steps are required to ensure that public utility transmission providers are adequately deploying advanced computing technologies.