A diverse group of businesses, advocacy groups, and labor unions sent a joint letter to the U.S Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources expressing their support for the Clean Energy Grid Integration Act (S.1201) sponsored by Senator Shaheen (D-NH). The Grid Integration Act reports on the status of grid integration and examines barriers that are limiting distributed generation sources from successfully connecting to the grid. It establishes a stakeholder working group to determine appropriate ways to overcome these barriers and provides competitive grants to states to demonstrate best practices for successfully integrating clean, distributed energy sources into the electricity grid. This low-cost approach identifies a problem and provides incentives for states to determine the best way to overcome it. It does not place any mandates on states or utilities. Read the full text of the bill here and our letter here.
Coalition Expresses Support for Clean Energy Integration Act
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