Sec. 403. Regional clean electricity planning models
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Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment this Act, the Secretary shall make available one or more regional electricity planning models and standardized data sets, including potential renewable energy hourly production profiles at all potential locations for renewable energy deployment, that States can use to develop plans for portfolios of clean electricity resources that are capable of achieving, at least cost, the goal described under section 610(a)(1) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as added by section 402 of this Act, consistent with the need to maintain reliability.
In making planning models and data available under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— solicit planning models and standardized, data sets from the national laboratories and universities; hold jointly with the Commission a technical conference on planning models and standardized data sets, including hourly profiles of renewable energy production at potential deployment locations, and consider the input from such conference in choosing planning models and data sets to make available; and update the planning models and data sets made available from time to time in response to new information.
The Secretary shall encourage States to use the models and data sets to— plan collaboratively with other States in the same North American Electric Reliability Corporation reliability region or organized electricity market on least-cost and reliable compliance with the clean electricity standard (as such term is defined in section 611(h) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978); and adopt, and from time to time update, multi-State clean electricity resource deployment goals that promote least-cost deployment consistent with maintaining electric reliability.