Daily on Energy: More negotiations to be had

Just seven Republicans supported Manchin’s permitting bill, which sought to preserve states’ authorities over siting transmission while still allowing FERC to step in if permits aren’t issued within a year’s time.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, was one of those seven. But, she said, making FERC the backstop, especially on cost allocation, would be a problem.

“I don’t think we want to federalize the grid,” Capito told Jeremy.

“There's a lot of questions about cost allocations, who's going to pay for this, who's going to benefit from it,” she said, adding that proposals to give FERC a suite of new or expanded authorities “tilts” the balance “in favor of the federal government making all those decisions, whereas now those are made by [public service commissions] and ratepayers and consumer advocates and states.”