SOLAR ENERGY related term(s) Power Resources
Addresses
New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy Independence: Senator Alexander, S1924 [25MR]
Bills and resolutions
Dept. of Energy: establish a program to prepare veterans for careers in the energy industry, including solar, wind, cybersecurity, and other low-carbon emissions or zero-emissions sectors (see S. 876), S1987 [26MR]
——— establish or designate Distributed Energy Opportunity Board and certify Distributed Energy Opportunity Communities to streamline clean energy technology permitting (see S. 2447), S5360 [9SE] (see H.R. 5335), H9346 [6DE]
——— provide for study and evaluation of net metering, which allows consumers and businesses who generate their own electricity to be compensated for energy they provide to the electric grid (see S. 346), S919 [6FE] (see H.R. 1009), H1390 [6FE]
Developing countries: authorize microenterprise assistance for renewable energy projects (see H.R. 212), H209 [3JA]
Federal aid programs: expand access to low-income households (see S. 2462), S5447 [11SE] (see H.R. 4291), H7665 [11SE]
FERC: require States to adopt standards to allow community solar projects to be connected to the grid and allow electricity produced by shared solar facilities to be credited to consumers to offset electricity bills (see H.R. 4175), H7492 [6AU]
Power resources: transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050 (see H.R. 5221), H9167 [21NO]
——— update Federal purchase requirement to ensure transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050 (see H.R. 5142), H8958 [18NO]
Renewable energy: establish a Federal renewable electricity standard for electricity suppliers (see S. 1974), S4565 [26JN]
——— promote development of renewable energy on public lands (see S. 2666), S5966 [22OC] (see H.R. 3794), H5998 [17JY]
Research: guide and authorize basic research programs for research, development, and demonstration of solar energy technologies (see S. 2668), S5966 [22OC] (see H.R. 3597), H5265 [28JN]
Taxation: extend certain credits relative to solar energy (see H.R. 2356), H3283 [25AP]
——— extend tax credit for residential energy efficient property and investment tax credit for clean energy technologies (see S. 2289), S5107 [25JY] (see H.R. 3961), H7462 [25JY]
——— temporarily increase the residential energy credit and investment tax credit for certain small solar energy projects (see H.R. 476), H462 [10JA]
Remarks in House
Ann Arbor, MI: tribute to community-led solar installation project, E1219 [27SE]
First Solar, Inc.: tribute, H8850 [14NO]
Power resources: interstate renewable electricity production transfer, H3837–H3839 [15MY]
——— national energy policy, H2791 [25MR]
——— transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050 (H.R. 5221), H9352 [9DE]
——— update Federal purchase requirement to ensure transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050 (H.R. 5142), H9126 [21NO]
Renewable energy: promote development of renewable energy on public lands (H.R. 3794), H7822 [19SE]
South Carolina: tribute to efforts to transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to clean and renewable energy, H7997 [26SE]
Remarks in Senate
Climate: assessment of Chinese efforts to address climate change, S5687 [25SE]
Minnesota: tribute to efforts to transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to clean and renewable energy, S2021 [27MR]
New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy Independence: establish, S1922 [25MR]
Renewable energy: establish a Federal renewable electricity standard for electricity suppliers (S. 1974), S4899 [17JY]
Reports filed
Energy Jobs for Our Heroes Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 876), S7112 [17DE]
Solar Energy Research and Development Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2668), S7113 [17DE]