POWER Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short title
This section states that the Act may be cited as the Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025, or the POWER Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025 .
2: Essential assistance
This section would amend Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170b) by adding a new provision about electric utilities. Under the new provision, an electric utility could carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities jointly with, or in combination with, power restoration activities that receive federal assistance under Section 403. The new provision would also state that if an electric utility facility receives Section 403 assistance for the emergency restoration of power, receiving that assistance would not make the facility ineligible for hazard mitigation assistance under Section 406 of the same Act, as long as the facility is otherwise eligible for that Section 406 assistance. This amendment would apply only to amounts appropriated on or after the date this Act becomes law.
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2. Essential assistance (a) In general Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170b ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (e) Electric utilities (1) Hazard mitigation activities An electric utility may carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities jointly or otherwise in combination with activities for the restoration of power carried out with assistance provided under this section. (2) Eligibility for additional assistance In any case in which an electric utility facility receives assistance under this section for the emergency restoration of power, the receipt of such assistance shall not render such facility ineligible for any hazard mitigation assistance under section 406 for which such facility is otherwise eligible. . (b) Applicability The amendment made by subsection (a) shall only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date of enactment of this Act.