Chapter 1
US Renewable Energy Policy—Analysis and Recommendations
Publication: Renewable Energy Technologies and Water Infrastructure
Abstract
In 1920, the United States implemented its first federal energy policy regarding renewable energy production: the Federal Water Power Act (FWPA) of 1920. The FWPA promoted establishment of renewable energy policy at the national level by creating hydroelectric power plants for energy generation, and promulgated the formation of the Federal Power Commission, which became the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1977. A monumental part of US federal energy policy was enacted nearly three decades later, when the Energy Policy Act of 2005 became public law. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 increased the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to 56 kmph for passenger automobiles by 2020. The enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (Farm Bill) of 2008 provided access to federal loans for biorefineries, and monetary compensation to facilitate the expansion of innovative biofuels and expanded the existing Rural Energy for America Program.
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