June 13, 2026 | Source: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — Sunshine Notice, June 2026 Commission Meeting (issued June 11, 2026); Docket No. RM26-4-000, Interconnection of Large Loads to the Interstate Transmission System
FERC's Self-Imposed Deadline on Large-Load Rules Lands at the June 18 Open Meeting
FERC issued its Sunshine Notice on June 11 confirming the June 18, 2026 Open Meeting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.
That date matters. Back on April 16, the Commission publicly committed to act by June 2026 on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking governing how large loads interconnect to the interstate transmission system — Docket No. RM26-4-000. June 18 is the only scheduled open meeting left in the window.
The ANOPR traces to an October 23, 2025 directive from the Secretary of Energy under Section 403 of the DOE Organization Act. It targets loads greater than 20 MW — data centers, large manufacturing — and asks whether flexible, curtailable loads should clear interconnection studies in as little as 60 days, whether large loads should foot the full cost of grid upgrades, and how reliability is evaluated when a generator partially shuts down to serve a co-located customer.
What This Means for Operators and Compliance Teams
Whatever FERC issues — a NOPR, a policy statement, or further process — it sets the federal template every RTO and transmission provider will be measured against. PJM, SPP, MISO, and the rest have been filing large-load and co-location frameworks ahead of exactly this moment.
For control rooms and planners, the operational question is curtailability. If the Commission rewards loads that agree to curtail with faster studies, your EMS, your dispatch procedures, and your real-time situational awareness around large flexible loads become reliability tools, not just commercial ones.
For compliance teams, watch the reliability conditions tied to partial generator retirements serving on-site load. That is where new study obligations and documentation requirements are most likely to surface, and where the gap between a tariff filing and an auditable process tends to open up.
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