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Committee replaces microgrid language, adds small modular reactor definition to distributed energy statute
Summary
The committee adopted a committee amendment that removes planned microgrid provisions and instead inserts a statutory definition for small modular reactors (SMRs), adding SMRs to the list of distributed energy resources.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a committee amendment to remove detailed microgrid provisions from a pending bill and to add a statutory definition for small modular reactors (SMRs). The change also explicitly included SMRs among technologies classed as distributed energy resources.
Sponsors said the amendment is a "replace all" that drops the earlier microgrid…
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