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)
Min(CA-47)
Quigley(IL-05)
Schrier(WA-08)
Tonko(NY-20)
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A wind and power transmission project, called the largest of its kind in the country, has raised $11 billion in financing, kicking off a year when many utilities are expected to step up much needed spending on the power grid.
Pattern Energy Group has started construction on its SunZia project, a wind farm in central New Mexico, where more than 900 wind turbines will generate over 3,000 megawatts of clean energy. A 550-mile transmission line will bring the power to some three million people in Arizona and California.
It’s hard to solve a challenge as sprawling and complex as doubling or tripling the scale of the transmission grids across the U.S. in a little over a decade. But the country’s climate and clean energy goals depend on it.
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.
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.