U.S. House Energy Democrats Release Clean Energy Framework Said To Provide For "Retail Choice Of Clean Energy"

U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a legislative framework of the draft Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act, which Democrats said would ensure the U.S., "achieves net-zero greenhouse gas pollution no later than 2050."

Notable is that the framework states, "The Act addresses some of the market barriers for new entrants and emerging technologies, facilitates the integration of clean and renewable resources into the grid, and provides for retail choice of clean energy."

The draft legislation was not yet available and will be released later this month

EnergyChoiceMatters has asked the committee what specifically the "retail choice" provision would entail

The framework also would create a national Clean Electricity Standard that would mandate that all retail electricity suppliers provide an increasing supply of clean electricity to consumers starting in 2022, rising to 100 percent clean energy by 2050

The framework also states, "Additional federal energy regulatory reforms include increasing oversight of the nation’s transmission system, setting requirements for interregional transmission planning, and mandating the interconnection and coordination of facilities under an independent system operator (ISO) or regional transmission organization (RTO)."