THE U.S. ENERGY SECURITY AND CLIMATE PACKAGE
Submitted by christian on Sat, 08/06/2022 - 17:13
$369 billion in energy security climate spending over the next 10 years The bill curbs the country’s carbon emissions by roughly 40% by 2030.
$37 billion a year for climate and renewable energy
- Investments in hydrogen, nuclear and renewable energy, fossil fuel and energy storage technologies
- Investing in domestic energy production and manufacturing
- New production tax credits for nuclear power and clean hydrogen.
- Tax credits for technologies like wind, solar, geothermal, energy storage, fuel cells and microgrid controllers.
- Increases the tax incentives for wind and solar projects built in low-income communities.
- $2 billion to the Dept of Energy for loans for transmission projects in “national interest corridors,”
- $760 million to facilitate interstate power lines,
- $100 million for interregional and offshore wind transmission planning and analysis.
- incentives for consumers to make their homes more efficient and electrify them.
- requires the Interior Department to offer at least 2 million acres of public lands and 60 million acres of offshore waters for oil and gas leasing each year for a decade as a prerequisite to allowing new solar or wind on federal land or in federal water
Manufacturing clean energy products
- $10 billion investment tax credit to manufacturing facilities for things like electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels
- $30 billion for additional production tax credits to accelerate domestic manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and critical minerals processing.
- Up to $20 billion in loans to build new clean vehicle manufacturing facilities across the U.S.,
- $2 billion to revamp existing auto plants to make clean vehicles.
Cutting emissions,
- $20 billion for the agriculture sector
- $3 billion to reduce air pollution at ports.
- Unspecified funding for a program to reduce methane emissions, which are often produced as a byproduct of oil and gas production
- $9 billion for the federal government to buy American-made clean technologies
- $3 billion for the U.S. Postal Service to buy zero-emission vehicles.
Research and development
- $27 billion clean energy technology accelerator to support deployment of technologies that curb emissions
- $2 billion for breakthrough energy research in government labs.
Preserving and supporting natural resources
- $5 billion in grants to support healthy forests, forest conservation, and urban tree planting
- $2.6 billion in grants to conserve and restore coastal habitats.
Support for states
- $30 billion in grant and loan programs for states and electric utilities to advance the clean energy transition.
Environmental justice initiatives
- More than $60 billion for environmental justice communities, including $3 billion in environmental and climate justice block grants to address the unequal effects of pollution on low-income communities and communities of color.
For individuals
- a $7,500 tax credit to buy new electric vehicles
- $4,000 credit for buying a used one.
Both credits would only be available to lower and middle income consumers.
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