S 1207 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Next Generation Electric Systems Act

Introduced May 6, 2015 Originated Senate Sponsor Mazie K. Hirono D-HI

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 14, 2015 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-65.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMay 6, 2015
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Next Generation Electric Systems Act

This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a grants program for eligible partnerships to develop and implement projects related to achieving the transformation of the future electric grid by the year 2030 using a comprehensive approach to electric system design and architecture.

Eligible partnerships may include any institution of higher education, National Laboratory, representative of a state or local government, representative of an Indian tribe, federal power marketing administration, industry expert, or nonprofit industry trade association, but must include at least one electric utility (either investor-owned or publicly owned), technology provider, rural electric cooperative, Regional Transmission Organization, or Independent System Operator.

DOE must, when selecting eligible partnerships to receive grants, give priority to those proposing projects for which a cost-share is to be provided.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 14, 2015Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-65.
  2. May 6, 2015Introduced in Senate
  3. May 6, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 6, 2015Introduced in Senate

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.