Bill
S. 1088: North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2023
Ordered Reported:
Last Action: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Explanation: The committees assigned to this bill sent it to the House or Senate as a whole for consideration on September 21, 2023.
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State of Play
Renewable energy sources — once the fuel of the future, then practical in specific, narrow applications — are increasingly economic mainstream sources of power generation. Hydropower was long the mainstay of U.S. renewable electricity generation, although wind power surpassed hydro for the first time in 2019, and solar continues its rapid growth. The continued growth of wind and solar, with their fluctuations, is tied in part to improvements in storage technology: batteries.