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Note : Congress recently voted on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package—the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA, P.L.117-2). It includes stimulus checks for individuals, expanded unemployment benefits, and funding for vaccines, state and local governments, schools and child care. The ARPA marks a huge win for the Biden administration during its first 50 days in office. Before the ink is dry, the administration has already pivoted to the second phase of the Biden agenda: Build Back Better. While ARPA was largely a relief bill, the next phase will be about rebuilding the economy, starting with...

Dive Brief: President Joe Biden's $1.52 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 includes a policy making standalone energy storage projects eligible for the federal investment tax credit (ITC), a move that advocates say will unleash new capital for renewable energy. The budget request also included new spending on storage as part of the administration's goal to decarbonize the energy sector by 2035.  Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, also included the storage ITC proposal along with $100 billion in power grid investments.  A Treasury Departme...

Published: 1 Apr 2021, 11:23 By: Deputy Editor Sonnen's battery storage with Solaria's PV panels in Utah, a VPP project that benefits from the ITC. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. The market for solar-plus-storage in the US has grown dramatically in recent years, with more than 1GW already. Additionally, there is more than 100GW in connection queues, explained Will Gorman, a researcher at the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in a panel discussion at the Energy Storage Summit USA, hosted by our publisher Solar Media. Of all th...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dr. John Joyce, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Thursday introduced legislation to speed the deployment of reliable broadband and expand access