Docket No. AD10-12-017
As a Commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), I thank you for your participation in this year’s software conference. Electric grid operators across the country have leveraged software to deliver increased efficiency, affordability, and reliability for the bulk power system. Your work to further streamline and advance software will yield significant improvements and greater efficiencies, which will help FERC achieve its mission of ensuring the reliable, affordable, and abundant energy on which American families depend.
Last month, the Commission responded to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright’s October 2025 ANOPR with a suite of unanimous and bipartisan Orders to Show Cause. Relevant here, the Commission found that RTO and ISO tariffs may be unjust and unreasonable if they do not consider grid enhancing technologies (GETs)[1]using models that accurately reflect GETs’ effect on the transmission system when evaluating a large load’s request for transmission service. As a result, there may be a need for software that grid operators and public utilities can use (1) to accurately study GETs in the large load interconnection process, and (2) to rapidly, clearly, and transparently convey the results of those studies to customers and the public.
While the specific Order to Show Cause proceedings are contested dockets that will not be discussed during the conference, if you have developed software that can accomplish those goals, I call on you to share your research, findings, and experience with the Commission, both in the software conference record and in the records of other relevant proceedings.
As a Commissioner, one of my top priorities is to leverage technology and embrace innovation, all with an eye toward better delivering on FERC’s mission. I welcome your contribution and help in doing so with grid enhancing technologies.
Sincerely,
David Rosner, Commissioner
[1] In the Orders to Show Cause, the Commission stated that alternative transmission technologies include static synchronous compensators, static VAR compensators, advanced power flow control devices, transmission switching, synchronous condensers, voltage source converters, advanced conductors, tower lifting, and dynamic line ratings.