FERC Large Load Orders
Case study · Infrastructure
Tracing one regulatory arc from a DOE directive to six show cause orders
- What
- A page-cited reader for FERC's six June 2026 large-load show cause orders.
- Stack
- Static site, no build step; a 56-test quote audit fails the build if a quote drifts.
- Status
- LIVE
- Dates
- Published June 2026 · Updated June 2026
- Links
- Live site · Source code
Background
When FERC moved to fix how large loads connect to the grid, what did it actually order? And can you read the orders themselves, not the trade-press summary?
This microsite is the whole regulatory arc in one place, with every displayed directive quoted verbatim and page-linked to the order it came from. On October 23, 2025 DOE invoked its rarely used Section 403 authority to direct FERC to open a rulemaking on large-load interconnection (Docket RM26-4-000). FERC answered on June 18, 2026 with six tailored Section 206 show cause orders, one per RTO/ISO. Each puts the region on a 30/60-day clock to defend its tariff or fix it. The through-line is cost causation: the large load that triggers a network upgrade should pay for it, not ordinary ratepayers.
A Look Inside
Each view shown on mobile and desktop — tap any image to open the live site.
How It Works
It's a static, dependency-free microsite — no backend, no build step — organized as six tabs that move from the summary down to the primary sources:
- Overview & Timeline: six headline figures — six RTOs/ISOs, five reform categories, the 30/60-day clock, the >20 MW threshold — plus dockets, deciding commissioners, and why FERC chose §206 orders over a generic NOPR.
- Reforms: the five categories every order shares, the transmission-versus-retail jurisdictional line, and the per-RTO distinctions, in the orders' own framing.
- Dockets (E-7 to E-12, plus E-2): a per-RTO accordion each, with quoted directives page-linked to both the committed PDF and ferc.gov, the Section IV asks, and the named-respondent roster.
- Item E-2: the PJM co-location order, decided the same morning. The six show cause orders extend its logic to every other region.
- Comments (RM26-4): all 273 comments in filing order, tagged by ANOPR question, reform principle, and RTO region, filterable by org, type, position, or region.
- Sourced, not summarized: 56 tests audit every displayed quote against the committed corpus and fail loud if one drifts. Nothing appears on the page that isn't page-cited.