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With customer demand already driving the rapid growth of renewable energy, a climate-focused infrastructure bill should focus on transmission and research, according to experts on a Thursday panel hosted by the American Council on Renewable Energy.
Infrastructure is next on the Biden administration agenda, and there s ample political will to increase spending on infrastructure, according to Christina Hayes, vice president of federal regulatory affairs at Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Focusing on decarbonization by 2035, she said, could create thousands of new jobs and other benefits, but requires a focus on shovel ready projects.
Private capital for clean energy and transmission projects is readily available, according to Susan Nickey, executive vice president and chief client officer of climate-focused investment firm Hannon Armstrong. However, she said, cumbersome permitting processes have prevented the construction of needed transmission projects.
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Senate Democrats are retooling energy tax reform legislation that was first proposed two years ago but which failed to advance in a Republican-led Congress.
The Clean Energy for America Act could include technology-neutral incentives rather than wind- and solar-specific credits, and would aim to move beyond the current cycle of short-term incentive extensions to a more permanent approach, according to Bobby Andres, senior policy adviser to Democrats on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. We re actively working on updating that bill for reintroduction and very much view it as a cornerstone of the efforts on energy tax this Congress, Andres said Wednesday at the virtual American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Policy Forum.
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