Tracked forecast · watch-16-7
Virginia’s and Texas’s 2027 legislative sessions: bills that write the grid rules into law or roll them back.
Open
- Chokepoint
- Grid Connections & Local Approval — Interconnection queues, siting fights, and the regulatory dockets (FERC, state PUCs, SCCs) that decide them. (Mostly price, occasionally an outright no)
- Kill condition
- A rollback in the 2027 sessions is the test the 1870s railroad history points to, and the case against the forecast wins if it happens.
- Horizon
- Once per session; dates unconfirmed
- Source
- Issue 16 — Price or Permission · full issue
Why it is on the watchlist
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa regulated railroad rates in the 1870s; most of those rules were watered down within a few years. Repealing a rule that moves a cost off households takes a vote, and someone gets blamed for it.
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