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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. 

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. BARRAGA ́N, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. 

WILD, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. CLARKE of 

New York, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, 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 

A BILL 

To authorize funding for certain offices and programs of 

the Department of Energy, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Energy Innova3 tion Funding Act of 2020’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress makes the following findings: 

6 (1) The urgency of the COVID-19 crisis and 

7 the climate crisis require us to advance job-creating 

8 innovation policies that reduce pollution as imme9 diately as possible, and one important step that we 

10 can take now is to increase our Federal investments 

11 in clean energy innovation. 

12 (2) Equally important, the far-reaching move13 ment for racial justice requires us to root out racism 

14 on all fronts, and one important way to do that is 

15 reduce toxic pollution that disproportionately im16 pacts communities of color while building a more eq17 uitable energy system. 

18 (3) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

19 Change Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C 

20 released on October 8, 2018, established a need for 

21 unprecedented global action to address climate22 warming pollution in the next decade. 

23 (4) Fostering innovation in the development of 

24 zero-emission energy and industrial processes 

25 through increased funding for public research, devel26 opment, and demonstration is one essential piece of 


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1 a broader suite of policies we must implement in 

2 order to meet global decarbonization goals. 

3 (5) The United States committed to doubling 

4 its public clean energy investments by fiscal year 

5 2021 when it helped launch Mission Innovation, a 

6 global initiative working to accelerate clean energy 

7 innovation, with the European Union and 22 other 

8 countries in conjunction with the 2015 Paris Agree9 ment. 

10 (6) While appropriations for clean energy re11 search and development have grown since 2015, cur12 rent Federal investments in clean energy are signifi13 cantly behind the scale needed to spur 

14 decarbonization across the United States economy. 

15 (7) The American Energy Innovation Council 

16 and the International Energy Agency have called for 

17 a tripling in clean energy funding to help ensure a 

18 more environmentally sustainable, secure, and af19 fordable energy system. 

20 (8) Increases in funding for the Department of 

21 Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

22 Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency—En23 ergy, Office of Electricity, Office of Indian Energy 

24 Policy, and Office of Science clean energy programs, 

25 which include basic energy sciences, biological and 


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1 environmental research, fusion research and ad2 vanced science computing research, are an important 

3 step in meeting United States commitments to the 

4 Mission Innovation goals and addressing the climate 

5 crisis. 

6 (9) In addition to helping address the climate 

7 crisis, these investments will also spur job growth, 

8 new business opportunities and economic recovery; 

9 help reduce air and water pollution improve energy 

10 security, help secure United States leadership in 

11 clean technology innovation, deployment, and manu12 facturing; and advance United States economic com13 petitiveness internationally as we develop and sell 

14 technologies globally. 

15 (10) Increases in funding for these research 

16 and development programs are vital to addressing 

17 pollution from difficult-to-decarbonize sectors, such 

18 as industry, aviation, shipping, and heavy-duty 

19 transportation. 

20 (11) Successful demonstration at commercial 

21 scale will be necessary to establish cost, reliability, 

22 and performance characteristics, especially in tech23 nology related to industrial emissions, energy stor24 age, and smart grid deployment. 


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1 (12) According to the International Energy 

2 Agency, demonstration is an important part of the 

3 development of new technologies that includes de4 sign, construction, and operation of a prototype of a 

5 technology at or near commercial scale with the pur6 pose of providing technical, economic, and environ7 mental information to industrialists, financiers, reg8 ulators, and policymakers. 

9 (13) Department of Energy research, develop10 ment, and demonstration have already resulted in in11 novation and cost reduction across clean energy 

12 technologies and, with increased funding, has the po13 tential to accelerate these to benefit all sectors and 

14 communities. 

15 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

16 It is the sense of Congress that— 

17 (1) we must help accelerate our transition to a 

18 clean-energy economy by significantly increasing in19 vestments in Federal research, development, and 

20 demonstration that will foster needed advancements 

21 in clean energy and deep decarbonization across the 

22 economy; 

23 (2) increased research, development, and dem24 onstration funding for the noted programs is not 

25 sufficient on its own to address the climate crisis, 


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1 but it is an essential step that must be coupled with 

2 a suite of climate polices and investments to maxi3 mize adoption of cleaner processes and technologies; 

4 (3) in order to maximize the best use of this 

5 funding increase, the Department of Energy should 

6 use resources in a targeted fashion to address cli7 mate change, such as by participating in strategic 

8 goal setting and engaging broadly with stakeholders, 

9 including industries, utilities, labor unions, and im10 pacted communities, especially environmental justice 

11 communities; 

12 (4) increased Federal investments in energy re13 search must be used to create a more just energy 

14 system that fairly distributes clean energy benefits, 

15 facilitates more representative and inclusive energy 

16 decision making, and addresses the disproportionate 

17 burdens historically faced by low-income commu18 nities and communities of color; 

19 (5) it is important for these programs to main20 tain a comprehensive approach to innovation that in21 cludes early-, mid-, and late-stage research, develop22 ment, and market transformation activities; and 

23 (6) a modernization of Department of Energy 

24 clean energy programs would enable even greater 


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1 progress to help address the climate crisis, includ2 ing— 

3 (A) an update to the Department of Ener4 gy’s mission to explicitly include mitigating cli5 mate change and increasing climate resilience 

6 would reduce existing barriers to climate-related 

7 efforts and allow the Department of Energy to 

8 specifically focus resources on emissions-reduc9 ing strategies; 

10 (B) expanded authorization to conduct 

11 workforce development, quality job creation, 

12 and social equity programs with a priority focus 

13 on communities of color, Tribal communities, 

14 low-income communities, deindustrialized com15 munities, and communities disproportionally im16 pacted by climate change, would better equip 

17 the applied energy offices to address these 

18 issues that will be key to mitigating climate 

19 change; 

20 (C) increased emphasis and funding for 

21 demonstration and deployment programs would 

22 increase the Department of Energy’s ability to 

23 get innovative, clean technologies into the mar24 ket and ensure that our investments translate 


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1 into domestic manufacturing and good jobs; 

2 and 

3 (D) elevate and target more resources to4 ward the Department of Energy’s work to ad5 dress difficult-to-decarbonize sectors, such as 

6 transportation, building, and industrial sectors. 

7 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATIONS. 

8 (a) OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEW9 ABLE ENERGY.—There is authorized to be appropriated 

10 to the Secretary of Energy for the programs and activities 

11 of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

12 of the Department of Energy— 

13 (1) $4,146,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 

14 (2) $4,837,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; 

15 (3) $5,528,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and 

16 (4) $6,219,000,000 for fiscal year 2024. 

17 (b) ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY—EN18 ERGY.—Section 5012(o)(2) of the America COMPETES 

19 Act (42 U.S.C. 16538(o)(2)) is amended— 

20 (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

21 the end; 

22 (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period 

23 at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 

24 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

25 ‘‘(F) $582,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 


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1 ‘‘(G) $721,333,333 for fiscal year 2022; 

2 ‘‘(H) $860,666,667 for fiscal year 2023; 

3 and 

4 ‘‘(I) $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.’’. 

5 (c) OFFICE OF SCIENCE.—There is authorized to be 

6 appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the programs 

7 and activities of the Office of Science of the Department 

8 of Energy— 

9 (1) $7,528,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 

10 (2) $8,185,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; 

11 (3) $8,846,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and 

12 (4) $9,511,000,000 for fiscal year 2024. 

13 (d) OFFICE OF ELECTRICITY.—There is authorized 

14 to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the pro15 grams and activities of the Office of Electricity of the De16 partment of Energy— 

17 (1) $232,869,565 for fiscal year 2021; 

18 (2) $271,681,159 for fiscal year 2022; 

19 (3) $310,492,754 for fiscal year 2023; and 

20 (4) $349,304,348 for fiscal year 2024. 

21 (e) OFFICE OF INDIAN ENERGY POLICY AND PRO22 GRAMS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the 

23 Secretary of Energy for the programs and activities of the 

24 Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs of the De25 partment of Energy— 


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1 (1) $32,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 

2 (2) $37,333,333.33 for fiscal year 2022; 

3 (3) $42,666,666.67 for fiscal year 2023; and 

4 (4) $48,000,000 for fiscal year 2024. 

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