To require the Secretary of Energy to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States through the development of action plans aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources, and for other purposes.
Latest action · May 14, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 13, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to: (1) reduce reliance and expenditures on imported fossil fuels; (2) increase the use of indigenous, nonfossil fuel energy sources; (3) improve the performance of energy infrastructure through projects to improve the energy efficiency of power generation, transmission, and distribution and increase consumer energy efficiency; (4) improve the performance of energy infrastructure through enhanced planning, education, and training; (5) adopt research-based and public-private partnership-based approaches; (6) stimulate economic development and job creation; and (7) enhance the engagement by the federal government in international efforts to address such energy needs.
Requires the team to provide assistance to each utility of each island and to each island's government to develop and implement an energy Action Plan to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels through increased efficiency and use of indigenous clean-energy resources. Requires the Secretary to consider including regional utility organizations in the establishment of the team and providing assistance through regional utility organizations.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 13, 2009.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-AS | Eni F. H. Faleomavaega | Original | May 13, 2009 |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Original | May 13, 2009 |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Original | May 13, 2009 |
| D-PR | Pedro R. Pierluisi | Original | May 13, 2009 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 14, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
- May 13, 2009Introduced in House
- May 13, 2009Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Advisory bodies
- Alternative and renewable resources
- American Samoa
- Caribbean area
- Coal
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy research
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Government studies and investigations
- Guam
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oceania
- Oil and gas
- Palau
- Public utilities and utility rates
- Public-private cooperation
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Virgin Islands
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 13, 2009Introduced in House
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