10 - clarifies that it does not discourage filings from utilities to implement similar reforms while the ANOPR proposal is pending:

9 - calls for transition plans in adopting new rules

8 - gives the large load customer the option to build:

7 - proposes to assign 100% of network upgrade costs to the large loads. Calls for comment on whether such costs should be offset through a crediting mechanism and, if so, over
how many years.

6 - Calls for flexible loads to get priority!

5 - DOE calls for standardized study deposits, readiness requirements, and withdrawal penalties.

4 - DOE calls for load and generation to be studied together wherever practicable:

3 - DOE sets a threshold of 20 MW for the reforms' applicability:

2 - DOE claims that @ferc.gov has jurisdiction over the interconnection of large loads TO THE TRANMISSION SYSTEM. Makes a robust argument for this jurisdiction but states that it is not regulating interconnection to the distribution system.

1 - The Secretary is asking for a fast response:

The DOE Org. Act is also clear that @FERC staff do not report to anyone in the Department of Energy except the Chair (subject to certain exceptions like each Commissioner's staff report just to that Commissioner).

Recommended reading on this topic is the DOE Organization Act. Link below. www.ferc.gov/media/depart.... For questions like the @ferc.gov chair's control over representation in court, the law is clear that FERC's own lawyers represent the Commission except at the Supreme Court:

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