Clean Energy Innovation Funding Act of 2020
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Science, the Office of Electricity, and the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs of the Department of Energy.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7827 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7827
To authorize funding for certain offices and programs of the Department
of Energy, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 29, 2020
Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Ms. Haaland, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Beyer, Ms.
Matsui, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Connolly, Mr.
Quigley, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Peters, Mr. Morelle, Mr.
Gomez, Ms. Norton, Ms. Moore, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr.
Welch, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Wild, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr.
Huffman, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Velazquez, Mrs. Hayes,
Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Jayapal, Mr.
Suozzi, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Heck, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms.
Brownley of California, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Larsen
of Washington, Mr. Soto, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Casten of Illinois, Mr.
Meeks, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Scanlon, and Mr. Kildee) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and
Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To authorize funding for certain offices and programs of the Department
of Energy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Energy Innovation Funding Act
of 2020''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The urgency of the COVID-19 crisis and the climate
crisis require us to advance job-creating innovation policies
that reduce pollution as immediately as possible, and one
important step that we can take now is to increase our Federal
investments in clean energy innovation.
(2) Equally important, the far-reaching movement for racial
justice requires us to root out racism on all fronts, and one
important way to do that is reduce toxic pollution that
disproportionately impacts communities of color while building
a more equitable energy system.
(3) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special
Report on Global Warming of 1.5C released on October 8, 2018,
established a need for unprecedented global action to address
climate-warming pollution in the next decade.
(4) Fostering innovation in the development of zero-
emission energy and industrial processes through increased
funding for public research, development, and demonstration is
one essential piece of a broader suite of policies we must
implement in order to meet global decarbonization goals.
(5) The United States committed to doubling its public
clean energy investments by fiscal year 2021 when it helped
launch Mission Innovation, a global initiative working to
accelerate clean energy innovation, with the European Union and
22 other countries in conjunction with the 2015 Paris
Agreement.
(6) While appropriations for clean energy research and
development have grown since 2015, current Federal investments
in clean energy are significantly behind the scale needed to
spur decarbonization across the United States economy.
(7) The American Energy Innovation Council and the
International Energy Agency have called for a tripling in clean
energy funding to help ensure a more environmentally
sustainable, secure, and affordable energy system.
(8) Increases in funding for the Department of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced
Research Projects Agency--Energy, Office of Electricity, Office
of Indian Energy Policy, and Office of Science clean energy
programs, which include basic energy sciences, biological and
environmental research, fusion research and advanced science
computing research, are an important step in meeting United
States commitments to the Mission Innovation goals and
addressing the climate crisis.
(9) In addition to helping address the climate crisis,
these investments will also spur job growth, new business
opportunities and economic recovery; help reduce air and water
pollution improve energy security, help secure United States
leadership in clean technology innovation, deployment, and
manufacturing; and advance United States economic
competitiveness internationally as we develop and sell
technologies globally.
(10) Increases in funding for these research and
development programs are vital to addressing pollution from
difficult-to-decarbonize sectors, such as industry, aviation,
shipping, and heavy-duty transportation.
(11) Successful demonstration at commercial scale will be
necessary to establish cost, reliability, and performance
characteristics, especially in technology related to industrial
emissions, energy storage, and smart grid deployment.
(12) According to the International Energy Agency,
demonstration is an important part of the development of new
technologies that includes design, construction, and operation
of a prototype of a technology at or near commercial scale with
the purpose of providing technical, economic, and environmental
information to industrialists, financiers, regulators, and
policymakers.
(13) Department of Energy research, development, and
demonstration have already resulted in innovation and cost
reduction across clean energy technologies and, with increased
funding, has the potential to accelerate these to benefit all
sectors and communities.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) we must help accelerate our transition to a clean-
energy economy by significantly increasing investments in
Federal research, development, and demonstration that will
foster needed advancements in clean energy and deep
decarbonization across the economy;
(2) increased research, development, and demonstration
funding for the noted programs is not sufficient on its own to
address the climate crisis, but it is an essential step that
must be coupled with a suite of climate polices and investments
to maximize adoption of cleaner processes and technologies;
(3) in order to maximize the best use of this funding
increase, the Department of Energy should use resources in a
targeted fashion to address climate change, such as by
participating in strategic goal setting and engaging broadly
with stakeholders, including industries, utilities, labor
unions, and impacted communities, especially environmental
justice communities;
(4) increased Federal investments in energy research must
be used to create a more just energy system that fairly
distributes clean energy benefits, facilitates more
representative and inclusive energy decision making, and
addresses the disproportionate burdens historically faced by
low-income communities and communities of color;
(5) it is important for these programs to maintain a
comprehensive approach to innovation that includes early-, mid-
, and late-stage research, development, and market
transformation activities; and
(6) a modernization of Department of Energy clean energy
programs would enable even greater progress to help address the
climate crisis, including--
(A) an update to the Department of Energy's mission
to explicitly include mitigating climate change and
increasing climate resilience would reduce existing
barriers to climate-related efforts and allow the
Department of Energy to specifically focus resources on
emissions-reducing strategies;
(B) expanded authorization to conduct workforce
development, quality job creation, and social equity
programs with a priority focus on communities of color,
Tribal communities, low-income communities,
deindustrialized communities, and communities
disproportionally impacted by climate change, would
better equip the applied energy offices to address
these issues that will be key to mitigating climate
change;
(C) increased emphasis and funding for
demonstration and deployment programs would increase
the Department of Energy's ability to get innovative,
clean technologies into the market and ensure that our
investments translate into domestic manufacturing and
good jobs; and
(D) elevate and target more resources toward the
Department of Energy's work to address difficult-to-
decarbonize sectors, such as transportation, building,
and industrial sectors.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATIONS.
(a) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.--There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the
programs and activities of the Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy--
(1) $4,146,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
(2) $4,837,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(3) $5,528,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and
(4) $6,219,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
(b) Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy.--Section 5012(o)(2)
of the America COMPETES Act (42 U.S.C. 16538(o)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end
and inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(F) $582,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(G) $721,333,333 for fiscal year 2022;
``(H) $860,666,667 for fiscal year 2023; and
``(I) $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.''.
(c) Office of Science.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Secretary of Energy for the programs and activities of the Office
of Science of the Department of Energy--
(1) $7,528,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
(2) $8,185,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(3) $8,846,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and
(4) $9,511,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
(d) Office of Electricity.--There is authorized to be appropriated
to the Secretary of Energy for the programs and activities of the
Office of Electricity of the Department of Energy--
(1) $232,869,565 for fiscal year 2021;
(2) $271,681,159 for fiscal year 2022;
(3) $310,492,754 for fiscal year 2023; and
(4) $349,304,348 for fiscal year 2024.
(e) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs.--There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the
programs and activities of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and
Programs of the Department of Energy--
(1) $32,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
(2) $37,333,333.33 for fiscal year 2022;
(3) $42,666,666.67 for fiscal year 2023; and
(4) $48,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
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