Amendment · S.Amdt. 5521· Senate(119-SAMDT-5521)

S.Amdt. 5521

Age: 62 years

Colorado

Introduced: 6/3/2026
Sponsored by: Michael Bennet
Cosponsors: None

Changes bill: 119-S-2 — Secure America Act

Introduced
Pending Consideration
Failed

This amendment was never taken up, and the bill finished without it. It was never voted on.

What this amendment would do

SA 5521, submitted by Mr. Bennet, aims to add a new section to bill S. 2 regarding a dispatchable energy requirement for certain utility mergers.

The purpose of this amendment is to require Federal agencies to withhold approvals for the merger of two or more utilities if the resulting utility would have a generating capacity over 70 gigawatts.

Approvals will be withheld until the parties can prove to the Federal agency that more than 30 percent of the installed generating capacity consists of dispatchable clean energy. This includes resources such as:

Wind
Solar
Hydropower or other renewable resources
Geothermal energy
Nuclear energy
Battery or other energy storage resources