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Senate ENR advances amended state energy policy rewrite, restores public‑health and distributed resources language
Summary
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to move SB 504 out of committee as amended, restoring language on public health, distributed energy resources and storage and adding a technical fix to read "energy conservation and efficiency."
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee moved SB 504 out of committee as amended after discussion among members and sponsors.
The amendment retained elements of the state's existing energy policy while adding explicit recognition that distributed energy resources and storage contribute to reliability. Committee members also added language to emphasize public health and clarified a phrase so it reads "energy conservation and efficiency." The sponsor presented the amendment as an effort to balance reliability, market principles and public‑health protections while enabling distributed resources and storage to contribute to system reliability and to lower transmission costs.
Committee members debated whether the amended…
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