Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
This bill amends Section 40101 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to (1) define and require use of reliability metrics (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI) including outages over five minutes and Major Event Days in calculations; (2) require grant-making (by DOE, States, and Tribes) to give additional weight to applicants with worse reliability (higher SAIDI/SAIFI/CAIDI) over the prior five years; (3) prohibit conditioning grants on addressing more than one category of eligible activities or preferring applications solely for addressing multiple categories; and (4) extend the program’s availability period from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031, funds to remain available until expended.
Progressives emphasize targeting worst-off grids and counting Major Event Days
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that (1) extends the authorization period for the IIJA program, (2) adds specific reliability metrics (CAIDI, SAIDI, SAIFI) and a standard reference for their calculation, and (3) requires grantmakers to give additional weight to entities with poorer historical reliability while prohibiting conditioning applications on addressing multiple activity types.
This bill amends Section 40101 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to (1) define and require use of reliability metrics (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI) including outages over five minutes and Major Event Days in calculations; (2) require grant-making (by DOE, States, and Tribes) to give additional weight to applicants with worse reliability (higher SAIDI/SAIFI/CAIDI) over the prior five years; (3) prohibit conditioning grants on addressing more than one category of eligible activities or preferring applications solely for addressing multiple categories; and (4) extend the program’s availability period from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031, funds to remain available until expended.
Content is narrowly technical and broadly noncontroversial, but enactment depends on appropriations and packaging into larger legislation.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that (1) extends the authorization period for the IIJA program, (2) adds specific reliability metrics (CAIDI, SAIDI, SAIFI) and a standard reference for their calculation, and (3) requires grantmakers to give additional weight to entities with poorer historical reliability while prohibiting conditioning applications on addressing multiple activity types.
Progressives emphasize targeting worst-off grids and counting Major Event Days
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize targeting worst-off grids and counting Major Event Days
Likely supportive because the bill targets resilience funding to communities and systems with worse reliability and requires counting major-event outages.
It narrows gatekeeping that could exclude smaller or single-focus projects.
The extension keeps federal resilience support active.
Cautiously favorable if the metrics are implemented with clear standards and strong data verification.
The bill pragmatically focuses resources where interruptions are worse and reduces unnecessary application complexity, but details on budget and oversight matter.
Skeptical of continued federal grant programs and of prioritizing applicants for poor past performance.
Concerns focus on federal micromanagement, potential perverse incentives, and ongoing federal spending without explicit appropriation increases.
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Content is narrowly technical and broadly noncontroversial, but enactment depends on appropriations and packaging into larger legislation.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize targeting worst-off grids and counting Major Event Days
Content is narrowly technical and broadly noncontroversial, but enactment depends on appropriations and packaging into larger legislation.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that (1) extends the authorization period for the IIJA program, (2) adds specific reliability metrics (CAIDI, SAIDI, SAIFI…
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