---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16441"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16441"
heading: "Funding new interconnection and transmission upgrades"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16441"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter XII — Electricity"
  - "Part C — Transmission Rate Reform"
---

# §16441. Funding new interconnection and transmission upgrades


The [Commission](/usc/42/16451.md?p=3) may approve a participant funding plan that allocates costs related to transmission upgrades or new generator interconnection, without regard to whether an applicant is a member of a [Commission](/usc/42/16451.md?p=3)-approved Transmission Organization, if the plan results in rates that—

- (1) are just and reasonable;
- (2) are not unduly discriminatory or preferential; and
- (3) are otherwise consistent with sections 824d and 824e of title 16.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1242, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 962.)