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<title>21st Century Power Grid Act</title>
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<action-date>2019-12-19</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>21st Century Power Grid Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program to provide financial assistance&nbsp;for&nbsp;projects designed to improve the resiliency, performance, or efficiency of the electric grid, while ensuring the provision of safe, secure, reliable, and affordable power. </p> <p>The projects must demonstrate (1) secure integration and management of energy resources, or (2) secure integration and interoperability of communications and information technologies related to the electric grid.</p> <p>Each project must include the development of a cybersecurity plan and a privacy effects analysis that evaluates the project in accordance with DOE's Voluntary Code of Conduct, commonly known as the DataGuard Energy Data Privacy Program.</p> <p>The projects may be designed to deploy a new product or technology that could be used by customers of an electric utility.</p>]]></summary-text>
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