Energy and Natural Resources
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The Reliable Investment in Vital Energy Reauthorization Act (RIVER Act) reauthorizes the existing Department of Energy program that provides funding to modify existing dams and river conduits with new electricity-generating technology. Only three percent of United States dams are currently used to generate clean hydroelectric power and the Department of Energy reports that there are up to 12 gigawatts of unused hydropower development in the nation’s existing dam infrastructure. This bill would allow the United States to capitalize on current infrastructure to produce clean power.
(Summary from Gardner press release)
This bill addresses Green New Deal goal 2(B)p.7 to update infrastructure in the United States and 2(C)p.7 to develop new clean power capacity.