§15851 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The Secretary must review U.S. renewable energy resources — including solar, wind, biomass, marine, geothermal, and hydroelectric — within 6 months after August 8, 2005 and then every year. The Secretary must update studies as needed for changes in markets, technology, or other factors, and must publish a report based on each yearly review beginning within 1 year after August 8, 2005. The report must give a detailed inventory of how much of each resource exists and its features, and include other useful details such as location, terrain, nearby people and energy infrastructure, cost estimates to develop the resources, any transmission barriers and recommendations to fix them, and ways to allow fair access to the power grid. Up to $10,000,000 may be provided to the Secretary for each fiscal year 2006 through 2010.

Title 42, §15851

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(a)Not later than 6 months after August 8, 2005, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall review the available assessments of renewable energy resources within the United States, including solar, wind, biomass, marine, geothermal, and hydroelectric energy resources, and undertake new assessments as necessary, taking into account changes in market conditions, available technologies, and other relevant factors.

(b)Not later than 1 year after August 8, 2005, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall publish a report based on the assessment under subsection (a). The report shall contain—

(1)a detailed inventory describing the available amount and characteristics of the renewable energy resources; and

(2)such other information as the Secretary believes would be useful in developing such renewable energy resources, including descriptions of surrounding terrain, population and load centers, nearby energy infrastructure, location of energy and water resources, and available estimates of the costs needed to develop each resource, together with an identification of any barriers to providing adequate transmission for remote sources of renewable energy resources to current and emerging markets, recommendations for removing or addressing such barriers, and ways to provide access to the grid that do not unfairly disadvantage renewable or other energy producers.

(c)For the purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.

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2020—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “marine” for “ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal)”.

§15851 Assessment of Renewable Energy Resources

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