Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Governors want to fast-track power plants Moves by states come as a fossil fuel - friendly President Donald Trump and Republican-controlled Congress take power in Washington, D.C., slashing regulations around oil and gas, boostingdrilling opportunities and encouraging the construction of pipelines and refineries that can export liquefied natural gas.
54% : However, it split the energy sector between companies operating in competitive markets and those operating under state utility monopolies.
45% : Last year, similar legislation passed almost unanimously in Kansas, along with companion legislation extending tax breaks to new power plants.
44% : But there may be less that the federal government can do right away about a looming power shortage, since greenlighting power plants to feed the electric grid is largely the province of state regulators and regional grid operators.
44% : Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to establish an agency to fast-track the construction of big power plants and dangle hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for projects providing electricity to the grid.
35% : States are seeking action, with the National Governors Association asking Congress to make it easier and faster to build power plants and criticizing the U.S. as among the slowest developed nations in approving energy projects.

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