With demand for electricity increasing and costs for residents and businesses soaring, it is important that Pennsylvania reduce inefficiencies that inhibit new energy development.

To this end, we will soon introduce legislation to require electric utilities to publish and regularly update publicly accessible maps showing distribution-system hosting capacity, including circuit limits, substation constraints, and interconnection queue status. Similar mapping requirements in Ohio, New York, and New Jersey have improved transparency for developers and system planners, speeding the construction and connection of new energy resources to the grid.

Accessible capacity maps reduce inefficiencies by allowing solar, storage, and other distributed energy developers to identify locations with sufficient capacity before initiating project design. Early visibility into system constraints helps developers avoid proposing projects that would require major upgrades, thereby lowering development costs and improving the predictability of interconnection timelines.

Utilities also benefit. By making system constraints visible upfront, the volume of speculative or infeasible interconnection requests decreases, allowing engineering staff to focus on viable proposals.

Please join us by co-sponsoring a simple change that will help businesses build more generation and reduce costs for consumers.