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This bill establishes a comprehensive framework to modernize integrated resource planning (IRP) for the electricity system, primarily through three key mechanisms. First, the Secretary of Energy must develop and publish detailed guidelines and best practices for IRP within two years, consulting with various stakeholders and addressing critical issues like capacity expansion modeling, transmission planning, scenario analysis, resource adequacy metrics, and probabilistic modeling. Second, the bill creates a Technical Assistance program to help states, utilities, and other entities understand and implement these new guidelines through training resources and educational materials. Third, the bill establishes the Integrated Resource Planning Modernization Grants Program, which will provide financial support to states—both vertically integrated and restructured—to develop or update their IRP requirements, support utility compliance, and implement strategies aligned with the new federal guidelines. The grants will be distributed based on factors like the state's existing IRP requirements, implementation plan comprehensiveness, number of electricity consumers, and infrastructure characteristics. The bill also requires periodic evaluations of the guidelines and mandates that the Secretary submit reports to congressional committees every five years detailing the grants' usage and effectiveness, with the ultimate goal of improving electricity system planning, reliability, and resilience.

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