FERC Order No. 2023: Interconnection Process Reform

FERC Order No. 2023 is the Commission’s generator interconnection reform order, issued 6 November 2023 with an internal document date of 28 July 2023. The full text is available as a PDF from FERC’s site.

How it gets used on a real project

Almost everything written about interconnection reform is a summary of a summary. Order 2023 is long, but the parts that touch your work, cluster study procedures, readiness requirements and deposits, withdrawal penalties, and study deadlines with financial consequences for the transmission provider, are worth reading in the original at least once. Those mechanics are what turned site control and deposit timing from administrative details into gating items on a development schedule.

One practical note: what governs your project is the transmission provider’s own compliance filing and tariff as accepted by FERC, not the order itself. Regional implementations differ. Read the order to understand the framework, then read the applicable tariff for what actually binds. This is background reading, not legal advice.

Read Order No. 2023 at FERC.gov