•    "The GRID Power Act is unnecessary and misguided. It empowers FERC to use discriminatory practices that pick winners and losers in our energy markets, rather than fostering fair competition. This bill does nothing to ensure a reliable grid, despite its title. Instead, it risks entrenching outdated fossil fuel generation while slowing the integration of cleaner, more affordable energy resources that families and businesses are asking for. At a time when we need policies that modernize and diversify our grid, this bill moves in the wrong direction and undermines true energy security." Source: Rep. Kathy Castor (Democrat, Florida)

•    "The ‘Grid Power Act’ could actually jeopardize reliability by disadvantaging the very resources that can be built most quickly. Clean energy resources and battery storage, which make up nearly 95% of the resources in the nation’s interconnection queues, are the fastest to construct. For example, building battery storage takes an average of 20-30 months, whereas gas plants generally take 40-50 months and could take over five years given the gas turbine shortage. To address mounting load growth and keep the United States at the cutting edge of manufacturing and AI development, the nation needs new capacity as fast as possible–but allowing gas power plants to skip over renewables and storage in the queue would only cause delays in getting new capacity online and improving resource adequacy." Source: National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)