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State Energy Groups Release Blueprint for State Action for a More Efficient, Customer-Centric Grid
As part of the conclusion of a national, two-year initiative hosted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials, 12 states made commitments today to implement key innovations to electricity planning in their states to better meet system and customer needs and state policy goals. To advance the state-of-the-art of electricity planning, NARUC and NASEO jointly released a Blueprint for State Action, five Roadmaps for Comprehensive Electricity Planning, an online library and additional resources for states.
The joint NARUC-NASEO initiative the Task Force on Comprehensive Electricity Planning presented findings on how states can lead the way in bringing together utilities and stakeholders to plan the grid of the future, impacting how billions of dollars will be invested on behalf of customers. The U.S. Department of
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A task force assembled by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO released a series of five modular blueprints and other tools on Thursday to aid state-level energy planning.
With financial support by the U.S. Department of Energy, the 15-state task force spent two years exploring how regulators and and policymakers can use existing planning processes to tackle current challenges such as climate change, grid resilience and rapid technological advances.
Task force leaders say states must act quickly to stay ahead of rapid change in the electric industry. A dozen states committed to immediate action based on the blueprints.
Democratic politicians and liberal economists argue that the climate regulations associated with the Paris Climate Agreement will spur new growth and will not cause high levels of unemployment. During his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg said that the Biden Administration’s “climate vision will create, on net, far more jobs. Millions we hope.”
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DOE program may save or thwart Biden’s energy plan Source: By David Iaconangelo, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), President Biden’s nominee for secretary of Energy. Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS/Newscom
A Department of Energy program considered critical to President Biden’s clean energy agenda is changing focus and may open the administration to political attack, analysts say.
When Biden was vice president, the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) distributed tens of billions of dollars in loans and loan guarantees intended to scale up new clean technologies. The office helped launch the first utility-scale wind and solar farms in the country. And it made a $535 million loan to Tesla Inc., now the world’s most valuable automaker, to open its first factory in Silicon Valley.