Now in its third iteration, the 2025 Transmission Planning and Development Report Card provides an updated assessment of U.S. transmission planning and development across ten regions. The first edition of the Report Card was published in 2023, followed by an Interim Report Card in 2024, which provided updates from around the country but did not assign new grades.
Overall, this latest edition shows incremental improvement in transmission planning across most of the regions, driven largely by reforms to regional planning. However, many regions continue to fall well short of best practices, and progress remains uneven relative to the scale and urgency of today’s transmission needs.
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A few topline findings from the 2025 Report Card:
- Transmission planning is improving in some regions, but progress remains uneven and too slow to keep pace with rapidly accelerating electricity demand driven by data centers, advanced manufacturing, and electrification.
- Regions that moved early to adopt long-term planning reforms under FERC Order No. 1920 are showing clearer gains.
- Interregional transmission planning, a new addition to the report card, remains a major weakness nationwide — earning an average grade of roughly a C- — increasing costs and reliability risks as demand grows.
About the Report Card: Since 2023, the Transmission Planning and Development Report Card has been produced by Grid Strategies on behalf of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid.
Past Years’ Report Cards
2024 State of Regional Transmission Planning (October 2024)
2023 Transmission Planning and Development Regional Report Card (June 2023)