S. 3397
would amend the Internal Revenue Code to establish requirements for the clean vehicle credit and the qualifying advanced energy project credit to prevent offshoring by manufacturers.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code to establish requirements for the clean vehicle credit and the qualifying advanced energy project credit to prevent offshoring by manufacturers.
would amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to reauthorize the Community Connect Grant Program.
would amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for more efficient hearings on nuclear facility construction applications.
would amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to expedite geothermal exploration and development in previously studied or developed areas.
would require the Administrator of EPA to ensure that flexible fuel vehicles may use certain gram per mile carbon dioxide values for purposes of determining fleet average carbon dioxide standards for certain vehicles.
Agrivoltaics, the concept of using solar energy systems to enhance agricultural production and generate renewable energy on the same plot of land, offers a lifeline to beleaguered farmers and communities facing water shortages, cost increases, and marginal agricultural profitability. This concept seeks to aid California in its ambitious renewables portfolio standard, and could reduce the impacts of climate change and the toll agricultural operations take on the San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater resources. However, agrivoltaics is a novel and emergent concept, and calls for adjusting California’s legal framework to better support it. This Article serves to bring greater attention to agrivoltaics and to further identify potential barriers to its application, while suggesting fair and reasoned solutions and identifying paths where its agricultural components provide either meaningful opportunities or unique challenges that could be mitigated.
would amend the Energy Act of 2020 to require the Secretary of the Interior to include the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultations regarding designations of critical minerals, elements, substances, and materials.
would prohibit the Secretary of Energy from enforcing energy efficiency standards applicable to manufactured housing.
would expand capacity in quantum information science, engineering, and technology.
would direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to facilitate tree planting that reduces residential energy consumption.