- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Mar 11, 2025
What it does
The POWER Act would prohibit the breaching of federally operated dams if such action would increase carbon emissions by more than 5 percent, reduce navigability for commercial shipping, raise product shipping costs by at least 5 percent, or require replacement energy infrastructure occupying at least 5 percent more land than the dam. It also prohibits retiring federally operated hydropower dams if doing so would raise electricity rates by more than 5 percent or decrease energy reliability by more than 5 percent in specified Western states, and requires full replacement of baseload generation within 30 days of any retirement. The bill applies to dams operated by the Army Corps of Engineers…
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