A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to assist States in adopting updated interconnection procedures and tariff schedules and standards for supplemental, backup, and standby power fees for projects for combined heat and power technology and waste heat to power technology, and for other purposes.
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Committee
Latest Action · October 24, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Heat Efficiency through Applied Technology Act or the HEAT Act
This bill addresses interconnection procedures, fees, and standards for the deployment of heat recovery technologies. (Interconnection means service to an electric consumer under which an on-site generating facility on the consumer's premises is connected to the local distribution facilities.)
Specifically, the bill directs
the Department of Energy to establish model rules and procedures for interconnection and its associated costs, and for determining fees or rates for supplementary power, backup or standby power, maintenance power, and interruptible power supplied to facilities that operate combined heat and power technology and waste heat to power technology; and the Environmental Protection Agency to create a voluntary grant program to encourage states to update state or local air permitting procedures to incorporate output-based emission standards.
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