Q All right, so excited to talk to you about this letter and notice of proposed rulemaking that Secretary of Energy Wright sent out very recently. Allison, I want to start with you, since you have the procedural knowledge here. Like, technically speaking, what is this? What did Secretary Wright send?
A Technically speaking, what Secretary Wright did was use a provision in the Department of Energy Organizing Act, provision, four or three B, which is why people are referring it to the, as the four or three B letter. He sent a letter to then chairman Rosner at FERC and all of the commissioners and said, I, the secretary of energy direct you to consider issuing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking or an ANOPER. Around large load interconnections. And it's a fourteen-page kind of bare-bones document that, that in the eyes of the Secretary, constitutes an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking. Um, that's the process, and now FERC can say, okay, great, we're gonna consider it, and they either move forward and issue the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, which there has been some public indication already that they are eager to do, Or they could decide not to issue the rule, but they would have to justify that decision.
AI assessment note: “Technically speaking, what Secretary Wright did was use a provision in the Department of Energy”