Grid Hardening Act of 2021

Grid Hardening Act of 2021

This bill expands the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program within the Department of Energy to include grants for technology, equipment, or hardening measures that enable the electric grid to better withstand the effects of extreme weather, a wildfire, or any other natural disaster.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5383 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5383

     To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
 reauthorize the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2021

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
 reauthorize the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Grid Hardening Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF SMART GRID INVESTMENT MATCHING GRANT 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1306 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 
(42 U.S.C. 17386) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d), by redesignating paragraph (9) as 
        paragraph (10) and inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
            ``(9) The ability to use technology, equipment, or 
        hardening measures to enable the electric grid to better 
        withstand the effects of extreme weather, a wildfire, or any 
        other natural disaster.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f), by striking ``2008 through 2012'' 
        and inserting ``2022 through 2026''.
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