Bipartisan efforts in energy: House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and Representative Scott Peters (D-CA) discussed initiatives to pass permitting reform and bolster America’s energy infrastructure.

• “It takes a long time to build things here in America,” said Chairman Westerman. “Permitting affects so many different parts of our lives. ... There’s a way we can do this…and build things again.”
• “There’s a remarkable consensus that data centers should pay for their costs and assume their risk,” said Representative Peters. “If you have more energy on there, more people paying, it actually could have a resulting benefit for customers.”

DOE’s focus on grid modernization: Gregory A. Beard, Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing, talked about large-scale energy financing and efforts to accelerate grid modernization.

• “We've got about $75 billion left to lend to utilities to help with additional generation, to do reconductoring, to help keep assets online that would otherwise need to be decommissioned,” said Director Beard.

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