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Representative presses for transmission funding; committee hears bill to study and seed projects
Summary
House Bill 3927 would require a statewide study of electric transmission expansion needs and create an Oregon Electric Transmission Expansion Fund; a dash-1 amendment reduced the draft appropriation from $8 billion to $1.6 billion per biennium for five biennia.
Representative Darcy Edwards, sponsor of House Bill 3927, told the committee the state is at a crossroads on electric transmission and economic development, and urged the Legislature to authorize a study and seed funding to support high-impact transmission projects. The bill directs the Oregon Department of Energy to study the need to expand electric transmission and to develop a report, and it establishes an Oregon Electric Transmission Expansion Fund to develop and complete two transmission expansion projects.
The original draft appropriated $8,000,000,000 to the fund per…
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