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S 2516 117th Congress Senate International Affairs Alternative and renewable resources Coal Electric power generation and transmission Energy storage, supplies, demand Foreign aid and international relief Government lending and loan guarantees Oil and gas

A bill to prohibit the United States International Development Finance Corporation from imposing restrictions on the source of energy used by power-generation projects intended to provide affordable electricity in IDA-eligible countries or IDA-blend countries and to require the Corporation to promote a technology- and fuel-neutral, all-of-the-above energy development strategy for such countries.

Introduced: July 28, 2021 Introduced by: Barrasso, John Republican · Wyoming See on congress.gov
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill prohibits the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation from prohibiting or restricting the source of energy used by a power-generation project that has as its purpose the provision of affordable electricity in certain countries. Such countries are those that are eligible for support either solely from the International Development Association (IDA) or jointly from the IDA and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Further, the corporation (1) may not reject a power-generation project in such a country based on the source of energy used by the project; and (2) must promote a technology- and fuel-neutral energy development strategy for such countries that includes the use of oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric, wind, solar, and geothermal power and other sources of energy.

What's happening now July 28, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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