§3003 Increasing economic certainty

Summary

The Secretary can look at all yearly fees together — like acreage rent, capacity charges, and other annual fees — when checking the rates that qualifying projects pay to use Federal land. The Secretary can lower acreage rents and capacity charges, or both, for existing and new wind and solar permits if the Secretary finds the current rates are too high for the market, cause economic hardship, discourage businesses from competing for leases or rights-of-way, are not priced competitively with other available land, or if lowering the fees is needed to encourage the most use of wind and solar resources.