# The momentum ledger

### Actions already moving toward the five principles, as of August 2026

*Status discipline: **Enacted** is law or a final order; **Ordered** is a commission or court directive not yet complete; **Filed** is a formal proposal in process; **Proposed** is a published design without process; **Organized** is a constituency, not a policy. Nothing here is claimed as an endorsement of this program; each entry is an adjacent effort read for the function it advances.*

| When | Who | What | Status | Principles | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | FERC | Show-cause orders to all six RTOs and their transmission owners: justify or reform large-load interconnection, extend flexible and non-firm service, and require minimum financial commitments that backstop network upgrades. | Ordered | P4, P5 | FERC, Section 206 orders, June 18, 2026 |
| Apr 2026 | Virginia | First-in-the-nation grid-utilization law: utilities must quantify how much of the grid is actually used, the commission may set utilization timelines, and the metrics enter review of capital cost recovery alongside required non-wires analysis. | Enacted | P1, P3, P4 | Virginia SB 621 / HB 434, 2026 |
| Jun 2025 | Texas | SB6: interconnection standards for loads above 75 MW, financial contribution to interconnection costs, curtailment equipment required before connection, a competitively procured demand-reduction service, and a review of transmission cost allocation. | Enacted | P4, P5 | Texas Legislature, SB 6, signed June 2025 |
| Jul 2026 | State commissions | Large-load tariffs assigning incremental cost have been approved in twenty-four states, with six more pending. | Enacted | P5 | Edison Electric Institute tracking, July 2026 |
| Jul 2025 | Ohio | Commission-approved data-center tariff: 85 percent minimum demand charge and 12-year terms for loads above 25 MW. *Contested on forecast grounds by manufacturers, which is the argument for the forecast-accountability entry below.* | Enacted | P5 | PUCO, AEP Ohio settlement, July 2025 |
| Nov 2025 | Pennsylvania | Load Forecast Accountability Act: the commission must validate the load forecasts utilities send to the regional market. | Enacted | P2, P5 | Pennsylvania General Assembly, 2025 |
| Jan 2026 | FERC and SPP | Expedited large-load pathway approved: load and generation studied together, with a limited, faster interconnection service and a conditional high-impact large-load process. | Enacted | P4 | FERC order on SPP HILLGA; SPP CHILLS tariff, 2026 |
| Jul 2026 | PJM | Connect-and-manage filed as the Interim Resource Adequacy Service, alongside a neutral Large Load Registry and a backstop procurement that settles as 15-year contracts rather than one-year auction exposure. | Filed | P2, P4, P5 | PJM Board decisional letter and FERC filings, July 2026 |
| 2019–2023 | Four states | Performance-based regulation authorized by statute in Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, and Washington; multiyear plans with performance mechanisms now run in Illinois, and more than thirty jurisdictions sit in the national performance-based regulation working group. | Enacted | P1 | State statutes; NARUC Performance-Based Regulation State Working Group |
| 2024–2026 | Twenty-plus states | Grid-enhancing-technology and advanced-conductor statutes: Virginia first required GETs in resource planning, Maryland now mandates advanced technologies on new transmission, and California requires recurring reconductoring studies. | Enacted | P4 | State legislatures; WATT Coalition tracking |
| Late 2025 | Colorado | Commission ordered open, machine-readable hosting-capacity maps with monthly updates in 2026 and hourly analysis by 2027, plus a standardized flexible-interconnection tariff for both generation and load. | Ordered | P3 | Colorado PUC, Xcel distribution proceeding |
| Aug 2026 | Minnesota | Commission accepted the utility distribution plan with compliance filings due on flexible interconnection and net-load methodology, plus a virtual power plant pilot. | Ordered | P3 | Minnesota PUC, Xcel integrated distribution plan |
| 2026 | California and New York | Flexible service at distribution moving through formal process: a commissioner proposal on scaling flexible connections in California, and a utility petition to extend flexible interconnection to additional substations in New York. | Proposed | P3, P4 | CPUC High-DER proceeding; NY PSC Case 26-E-0052 |
| Aug 2026 | Grid 2.0 Task Force | An open protocol standard for permission-based grid access with tiered service classes, written to unify the connect-and-manage schemes emerging across the organized markets. *A proposal without an operating record; cited for the function it demonstrates, not as proof.* | Proposed | P3, P4 | G2TF, RFC #1, August 2026 |
| Mar 2026 | Coalitions | Grid-utilization and flexibility advocacy is organized: a utilization coalition of large customers, DER providers, and grid-technology firms, alongside standing GETs, customer, and advanced-energy alliances. | Organized | P1, P3, P4, P5 | UTILIZE Coalition launch; WATT Coalition; Electricity Customer Alliance |

None of these is the full program. Together they depict the program arriving piecemeal. The five principles framework exists to show how they are interdependent, and what is still missing.