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S 2993 115th Congress Senate Energy

A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program.

Introduced: June 5, 2018 Introduced by: Bennet, Michael F. Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jun 5, 2018
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program. (The program is administered by the Department of Agriculture and provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to farmers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or energy efficiency improvements.)

The bill specifies that energy storage includes electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical storage, for example, provided by battery storage, a grid-enabled water heater, or pumped hydroelectric storage.

What's happening now June 5, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Merkley, Jeff
Oregon · Jun 5, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2993: A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2993/
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"S. 2993: A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2993/.
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S. 2993, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2993/.
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