Clean Energy Deployment
This task force will focus on studying and addressing impediments to the full deployment of cleaner, cheaper energy technology, especially in a time of increasing energy demand; protecting and building on the progress we have made thus far; and exploring potential grid modernization and clean energy reform policies. The goal will be to ensure cleaner, cheaper energy continues to be a key part of US energy independence.
Co-Chairs
Casten(IL-06)
Levin(CA-49)
Members
Brownley(CA-26)
Case(HI-01)
Huffman(CA-02)
Magaziner(RI-02)
Quigley(IL-05)
Schrier(WA-08)
Tonko(NY-20)
Min(CA-47)
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In a 2-1 partisan split, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission required utilities and regional grid operators to plan for electricity growth and a changing mix of energy resources decades into the future. The decision is the most consequential policy initiative from FERC in more than a decade explicitly aimed at regional planning.
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The reactions by lawmakers underscored the hurdles that bipartisan permitting and transmission legislation faces in Congress.