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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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.