2024 Priorities
Supporting Congressional Action to Address Climate Change
- Legislative efforts to regulate greenhouse gases must provide regulatory certainty while keeping electricity affordable and reliable.
- Rules implementing elective pay tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act must be simple and efficient.
Enacting Energy Permitting Reform
- Energy infrastructure permitting and siting rules must facilitate cost-effective construction to maintain reliability and accommodate a changing resource mix.
- Transmission permitting processes must be streamlined to encourage the development of new facilities.
- Lengthy and duplicative processes for hydropower licensing and relicensing must be remedied.
Alleviating the Supply Chain Crisis
- Action must be taken to identify short- and long-term solutions to address the root causes of distribution transformer shortages.
Reducing Financing Costs for Infrastructure Investments
- The federal tax exclusion for municipal bond interest should be strengthened through commonsense reforms.
- Legislation is necessary to end the threat of sequestration of bond and tax credit payments.
Strengthening Partnerships for a Secure Grid
- Incident reporting mandates should remain in place as the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act is fully implemented.
- The reliability of the electric grid is threatened by critically short supplies of critical infrastructure components.
For a full list of APPA’s key advocacy issues, visit our Policy Positions page.
