Through partisan votes, mostly, the legislators of the House of Representatives advanced the legislation on September 18, which defenders say they will speed up some energy -related projects, but some Democrats warn that energy prices will increase.
The law of energy infrastructure for the promotion of cross -border infrastructure aims to carry out the process to authorize the construction of international installations that cross borders for the import and export of oil and natural gas and the transmission of electricity, “ more uniform, transparent and modern ”.
Anyone who was planning to build this facility would be required to obtain a passage certificate from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission or the United States Department of Energy for electrical transmission facilities. Agencies would have 120 days to issue a certificate or deny a request, if not in the public interest, or only 30 days for natural gas facilities at the Mexican or Canadian borders.
The bill includes an exemption from any project with presidential permission.
Representative Julie Fedorchak (RN.D.), who sponsored the bill, said in a statement that he would address the regulatory uncertainty that has grown in the current process, which implies a combination of permits, procedures from different agencies and executive discretion. He pointed out Joe Biden’s decision to revoke Keystone XL’s pipe permit on the first day of his term in 2021.
“By passing my legislation, the House has taken a critical step to end the years of regulatory uncertainty and partisan games that have delayed energy infrastructure projects, crushed the work of good payment and undermined U.S. energy security,” said Fedorchak.
The groups in the electricity sector have supported the legislation. Marco Giamberdino, a senior vice president of Public Affairs and Government of the National Association of Electrical Contractors, said in a statement that the bill “allows the provision of more timely projects and ensures stable workloads for NEC contractors throughout the country.”
Another bill, the reliability of guarantee through the interconnection of the law of dispatching power, or the Law of Power of the Network, would help the developers of power plants in the reviews of fast monitoring projects. He addresses the Commission to initiate the decision to “address inefficiencies and inefficiency of existing procedures” in processing applications for interconnection. Transmission suppliers could submit proposals for the commission to adjust their interconnection queue to prioritize sentable electrical plants.
Suppliers should demonstrate the need to prioritize a particular project and describe how network reliability and resilience would improve. Ferc would have 60 days to review and approve or deny a proposal.
Waiting time for interconnection energy projects have increased to five years, according to the representative Troy Balderson (R-Ohio), who sponsored the bill. He blamed projects supported by green energy credits during the longest waiting times and emphasized the increasing demand for facilities to feed the AI data centers.
“With the demand for North -American energy far exceeding our ability to generate more electricity, our network is heading towards a crisis of reliability,” said Balderson in a statement. “The interconnection queue is overwhelmed and demolished, leaving power projects ready for the shovel waiting for years as the demand continues to increase.”
A third bill advanced on September 18, restores the National Coal Council, which closed in the energy department when its letter expired by 2021. By letter, the Board’s 120-150 members meet twice a year to advise the Energy Secretary on Coal Policy issues and are designated by the Secretary for up to two years.
The invoices collectively “are reduced to the Trump Administration’s commitment to increase the prices of North -Americans discriminating for clean and cheap energy,” said Frank Pallone (DN.J.). “They show that Republicans have never been for an energy strategy of everything that does not mind fixing the cost of highly insaning life that is crushing families throughout this country right now.”
The legislation goes to the Senate.
