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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut directs DEEP to form working group on electric transmission siting and grid capacity
Last action · March 31, 2026: File Number 276Sponsors: Aundré Bumgardner and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection must convene a working group by October 1, 2026, to study electric transmission facility siting and grid capacity planning, with a report due to the General Assembly by July 1, 2027.
Establishes a formal state study group tasked with examining infrastructure bottlenecks, distributed energy integration, and cost-sharing rules for future power developers, potentially shaping future electric utility regulations and project expenses.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
electric distribution companies
Must provide representatives to participate in the DEEP working group examining grid capacity and transmission siting.
distributed generation developers
Subject to future recommendations regarding cost-sharing and cost-shifting mechanisms for infrastructure improvements.
Key Facts
- The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection must convene a working group within DEEP by October 1, 2026.
- The working group must study electric transmission facility siting and long-term electric grid interconnection and capacity planning.
- The group is charged with examining administrative or interagency delays in siting transmission facilities.
- The group must evaluate needs for grid enhancements, including additional interconnection points for distributed generation sources.
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- The group must review potential cost-sharing or cost-shifting mechanisms to prevent distributed generation developers from bearing inequitable infrastructure costs.
- Required members of the working group include the DEEP commissioner, PURA chairperson, Consumer Counsel, OPM secretary, DAS commissioner, and representatives of electric distribution companies.
- The commissioner must submit a report detailing the working group's findings and legislative recommendations to the energy and technology committee by July 1, 2027.
- The fiscal impact statement projects no state or municipal cost resulting from the bill.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Mar 31, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 276
- Mar 31, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 187
- Mar 31, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 31, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 25, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/30/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 18, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 27, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/05
- Feb 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Energy and Technology
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
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