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Allison Clements

Principal, 804 Advisory · 1 appearance on the record.

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Allison Clements served as a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2020 to 2024, leading major reforms in transmission planning and grid interconnection queues. She currently advises data center developers, investors, and clean energy companies on grid capacity and market design through 804 Advisory and ASG.

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4 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Allison argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
Clements: DOE proposes 60-day fast-track for curtailable power loads
“And three, and the exciting part that I know Tyler's going to want to jump in on, is that it suggests that if loads are willing to be curtailed, curtailable, if loads will stop when asked, stop taking power from the grid when asked by the grid operator, they s…”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 13:27 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection

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Everything Allison Clements said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Clements: Legal Arguments Strong for Federal Jurisdiction Over Load Interconnections
“And so, I think the legal arguments are very strong in favor of the Secretary of Energy's position here, and in favor of the position FERC would take.”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 9:34 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Assertion Supported
Clements: DOE proposes 60-day fast-track for curtailable power loads
“And three, and the exciting part that I know Tyler's going to want to jump in on, is that it suggests that if loads are willing to be curtailed, curtailable, if loads will stop when asked, stop taking power from the grid when asked by the grid operator, they s…”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 13:27 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Opinion
Clements: DOE's proposed April timeline for FERC final order is unrealistic
“It's not realistic what authority does the, you know, the Secretary of Energy have in that case, the bully pulpit political pressure.”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 40:17 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clements: FERC has avoided standardized rules since standard market design failed
“Historically, the agency has also really been kind of a thousand flowers blooming type place, and been, ever since standard market design failed in 2000, been, the agency's been really skittish about requiring standardized anything across the board.”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 29:24 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Insight
Clements: Excluding virtual power plants violates Federal Power Act non-discrimination rules
“The other nice thing about not getting specific, that specific about technologies is that it'll, it'll, it'll, it's legitimate under the Federal Power Act, which is FERC's guiding principle, right? And so to the extent that there are attempts to do things like…”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 38:12 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Assertion Supported
Clements: FERC Unanimously Rejected DOE's 2017 Coal and Nuclear Rulemaking Proposal
“In 2017, the administration sent over a letter of, with a proposed rulemaking to then Chair Neal Chatterjee and the FERC requesting them to subsidize coal and nuclear plants with some you know, on-site fuel supply benefit and that FERC unanimously rejected Mov…”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 6:07 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Assertion Supported
Clements: FERC Has Never Asserted Jurisdiction Over Bundled Transmission Rates
“And FERC has never exercised authority, exercised its authority to take jurisdiction over that piece.”
Allison Clements Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 9:09 Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection

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Appearances (1)

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Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection Oct 30, 2025 10m
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