42 U.S.C. § 6807a: Energy efficiency grants to…

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to State regulatory authorities to promote demand-side management like energy conservation, energy efficiency, and load management. Each authority may get up to $250,000. Grants can help pay nonprofit groups in the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program so those groups can take part in utility regulatory hearings. A State must send the Secretary a plan saying what it will do to meet these goals. When deciding awards and amounts, the Secretary will look at the State’s proposed actions and whether they follow the ratemaking standards in paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) of 16 U.S.C. 2621(d) or paragraphs (3) and (4) of 15 U.S.C. 3203(b). Plans must include steps to let grantees and Weatherization subgrantees join proceedings and cover their costs. Grant recipients must keep records the Secretary requires. “State regulatory authority” is defined by 16 U.S.C. 2602 and 15 U.S.C. 3202, or the State energy office if there is no statewide ratemaking authority. Congress authorized $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996.

Title 42, §6807a

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(a)Energy efficiency grants

The Secretary is authorized in accordance with the provisions of this section to provide grants to State regulatory authorities in an amount not to exceed $250,000 per authority, for purposes of encouraging demand-side management including energy conservation, energy efficiency and load management techniques and for meeting the requirements of paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) of section 2621(d) of title 16 and as a means of meeting gas supply needs and to meet the requirements of paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 3203(b) of title 15. Such grants may be utilized by a State regulatory authority to provide financial assistance to nonprofit subgrantees of the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program in order to facilitate participation by such subgrantees in proceedings of such regulatory authority to examine energy conservation, energy efficiency, or other demand-side management programs.

(b)Plan

A State regulatory authority wishing to receive a grant under this section shall submit a plan to the Secretary that specifies the actions such authority proposes to take that would achieve the purposes of this section.

(c)Secretarial action

(1)In determining whether, and in what amount, to provide a grant to a State regulatory authority under this section the Secretary shall consider, in addition to other appropriate factors, the actions proposed by the State regulatory authority to achieve the purposes of this section and to consider implementation of the ratemaking standards established in—

(A)paragraphs (7), (8) and (9) of section 2621(d) of title 16; or

(B)paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 3203(b) of title 15.

(2)Such actions—

(A)shall include procedures to facilitate the participation of grantees and nonprofit subgrantees of the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program in proceedings of such regulatory authorities examining demand-side management programs; and

(B)shall provide for coverage of the cost of such grantee and subgrantees’ participation in such proceedings.

(d)Recordkeeping

Each State regulatory authority that receives a grant under this section shall keep such records as the Secretary shall require.

(e)“State regulatory authority” defined

For purposes of this section, the term “State regulatory authority” shall have the same meaning as provided by section 2602 of title 16 in the case of electric utilities, and such term shall have the same meaning as provided by section 3202 of title 15 in the case of gas utilities, except that in the case of any State without a statewide ratemaking authority, such term shall mean the State energy office.

(f)Authorization

There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995 and 1996 to carry out the purposes of this section.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and not as part of the Energy Conservation and Production Act which comprises this chapter.

§6807a Energy Efficiency Grants to State Regulatory Authorities

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Title 42, §6807a

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