Simon Lomax
After months of debating infrastructure, federal lawmakers may be turning their attention to a new subject: Power plants and the utilities that deliver electricity to homes and businesses.Â
According to CBS News, some lawmakers want to attach a Clean Energy Standard (CES) to the federal budget using a parliamentary move that requires 51 votes in the U.S. Senate rather than the usual 60. Under a CES, the federal government would decide which fuels and which technologies can and cannot be used to generate electricity over the coming years and decades.
Today, those decisions are mostly made at the state and local level through lengthy planning procedures that involve power companies, utility regulators, environmental officials, stakeholder groups and members of the general public. These decisions are also heavily influenced by the cost of competing sources of electricity, tax incentives and state-level mandates for certain energy technologies, like wind and
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