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U.S. Reps. Sean Casten (D-IL) and Mike Levin (D-CA) were among a group of House lawmakers that introduced legislation this week that seeks to accelerate the development of energy transmission lines.
The Clean Electricity and Transmission Acceleration (CETA) Act addresses what the lawmakers call the biggest challenge facing the United States’ ability to meet its climate goals — the lack of capacity on the electrical grid to connect clean energy generation.
Two generations of IUE-CWA members testified before Congress last week about the power of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) investment in clean jobs to onshore wind energy manufacturing and create the kind of good jobs that a parent can be proud to keep in the family.
Eric Romero Sr. and his son, Eric Romero Jr., members of IUE-CWA Local 81301, traveled from Schenectady, N.Y., to Washington, D.C., to testify before the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition in a roundtable discussion to highlight IRA investments in clean jobs across the country.
Dive Brief:
House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill to spur transmission development, with a focus on interregional and offshore wind lines.
NEW PERMITTING REFORM LEGISLATION: Democratic Reps. Sean Casten and Mike Levin, co-chairs of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, are out with a new permitting reform measure – likely the last legislative measure overhauling the permitting process to be introduced before the election year.
Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Mike Levin of California are set to introduce a bill on Wednesday that would modify the federal permitting system to allow the volume of transmission lines needed to deliver renewable energy to consumers across the country.
A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrats on Dec. 13 would grant
FERC numerous new authorities over interregional transmission in a bid to spur large projects and increase the flow of renewable energy across state lines.
Two of the House’s biggest clean energy enthusiasts Wednesday dropped their long-anticipated pitch on transmission in a bid to coalesce Democrats around a landmark permitting plan to accelerate renewable energy development.
The bill from Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Mike Levin of California would ease transmission build-out, expand renewable energy and fix the country’s jumbled electricity system.
House Democrats formally outlined what they want the nation’s energy system to look like in a bill filed early Wednesday morning.
“We as Democrats have been too silent on what is Democratic energy policy,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) told The Hill.
Democrats are floating a new consensus permitting bill to rally around. At least, that’s the goal of new legislation from Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.) that’s been almost a year in the making.
- Plan viewed as alternative to GOP domestic energy agenda
- Bill would boost FERC’s role in renewable energy projects