House members introduce energy efficiency

House members introduce energy efficiency, reliability bill

Washington (Platts)--22Apr2004


US House members Randy Cunningham (Republican-California) and Ed Markey
(Democrat-Massachusetts) Thursday introduced legislation to provide incentives
for energy-efficiency technologies and to create mandatory reliability
standards for the nation's electric grid.

The legislation mirrors a bill (S2311) introduced in the US Senate last week by Sen Olympia Snowe
(Republican-Maine) and Sen Dianne Feinstein (Democrat-California). The bill
contains the grid reliability provisions of HR 6, the comprehensive energy
bill that passed the House last year, and provisions, its sponsors say will
save more than 12% of the nation's natural gas supply a year through
efficiencies and incentives to conserve.

A broad energy bill that includes an identical grid reliability measure has been stymied in the Senate since last
year over lawmakers concerns about its cost and other provisions.