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In a letter of 23 October 2025, citing his authority under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, the Secretary of Energy directed FERC to initiate rulemaking and attached for its consideration an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on interconnecting large loads, including AI data centres, to the transmission system, asking for final action no later than 30 April 2026. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-10-23 · signature Stated dates (targets and terms, not events) deadline: 2026-04-30 Scope and limits A direction and proposal to FERC; it does not itself change any rule. The enclosed ANOPR is undated ("Issued DATE") and defines large loads as greater than 20 MW. FERC's subsequent action was not located in the Federal Register search made for this pack (see openQuestions).
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Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads ↗ U.S. Department of Energy · 2025-10-23
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Source excerpt “large loads, including AI data centers, served by public utilities must be able to connect to the transmission system in a timely, orderly, and non-discriminatory manner” Location in source letter, p. 1, paragraph 1
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Department of Energy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9). PDF '403 Large Loads Letter.pdf' on energy.gov, letter dated October 23, 2025, followed by the draft ANOPR. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Department of Energy, “Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads”, 2025-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (26 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 53) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads ↗ U.S. Department of Energy · 2025-10-23
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Source excerpt “pursuant to my authority under section 403 of the Department of Energy Organization Act,” Location in source letter, p. 2
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Department of Energy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9). PDF '403 Large Loads Letter.pdf' on energy.gov, letter dated October 23, 2025, followed by the draft ANOPR. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Department of Energy, “Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads”, 2025-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (14 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 53) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads ↗ U.S. Department of Energy · 2025-10-23
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Source excerpt “I attach for the Commission's consideration the enclosed advance notice of proposed rulemaking” Location in source letter, p. 2
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Department of Energy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9). PDF '403 Large Loads Letter.pdf' on energy.gov, letter dated October 23, 2025, followed by the draft ANOPR. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Department of Energy, “Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads”, 2025-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 53) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads ↗ U.S. Department of Energy · 2025-10-23
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Source excerpt “I look forward to your consideration and final action (no later than April 30, 2026)” Location in source letter, p. 2, closing paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Department of Energy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9). PDF '403 Large Loads Letter.pdf' on energy.gov, letter dated October 23, 2025, followed by the draft ANOPR. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Department of Energy, “Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads”, 2025-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 53) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads ↗ U.S. Department of Energy · 2025-10-23
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Source excerpt “For purposes of this ANOPR, large loads are defined as greater than 20 MW” Location in source enclosure (ANOPR), PDF p. 3, footnote 1
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Department of Energy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9). PDF '403 Large Loads Letter.pdf' on energy.gov, letter dated October 23, 2025, followed by the draft ANOPR. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22728783ee5a6231295b9d60445b1a4db3b274c7b0fb490123026311541ce1d9, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Department of Energy, “Letter of the Secretary of Energy to FERC under section 403 of the DOE Organization Act, with draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads”, 2025-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (14 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 53) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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