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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 423 
To authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish an Advanced Power System 
Technology Incentives Program to fund the development and deployment 
of new advanced technologies such as advanced fuel cells, turbines, or 
hybrid power systems or power storage systems to generate or store 
electric energy, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2005 
Mr. TERRY (for himself and Mr. DOYLE) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish an Ad-
vanced Power System Technology Incentives Program 
to fund the development and deployment of new ad-
vanced technologies such as advanced fuel cells, turbines, 
or hybrid power systems or power storage systems to 
generate or store electric energy, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Homeland Infrastruc-
ture Power Security and Assurance Incentives Act of 
2005’’.
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) In order to fortify and protect critical infra-
structure systems and facilities like military installa-
tions, banks, utilities, and information technology 
systems from potential terrorist threats and to pro-
vide efficient and assured power to such facilities ad-
vanced technologies must be encouraged and in-
stalled by U.S. electricity providers. 
(2) Dependence on foreign oil is a matter of na-
tional security and the nation must consider all en-
ergy resource options, including support for energy 
efficiency and renewable resources and technologies 
that will ensure a diverse energy portfolio. 
(3) Estimates are that power outages, brown-
outs, and other voltage disturbances cost U.S. indus-
try up to $150 billion per year and cause great dis-
ruption to the Nation’s economy. 
(4) Distributed Power systems, such as fuel 
cells, turbines and hybrid combinations of these 
technologies, backed up with storage systems, can 
reduce costly outages, and ensure more assured and 
secure and reliable power generation and distribu-
tion, protected from potential terrorist threats to our 
national infrastructure.
SEC. 4. ADVANCED POWER SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY INCEN-
TIVE PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Energy is author-
ized to establish an Advanced Power System Technology 
Incentive Program to support the deployment of certain 
advanced power system technologies and to improve and 
protect certain critical governmental, industrial, and com-
mercial processes. Funds provided under this section shall 
be used by the Secretary to make incentive payments to 
eligible owners or operators of advanced power system 
technologies to increase power generation through en-
hanced operational, economic, and environmental perform-
ance. Payments under this section may only be made upon 
receipt by the Secretary of an incentive payment applica-
tion establishing an applicant as either— 
(1) a qualifying advanced power system tech-
nology facility; or 
(2) a qualifying security and assured power fa-
cility. 
(b) INCENTIVES.—Subject to availability of funds, a 
payment of 1.8 cents per kilowatt-hour shall be paid to 
the owner or operator of a qualifying advanced power sys-
tem technology facility under this section for electricity 
generated at such facility. An additional 0.7 cents per kilo-
watt-hour shall be paid to the owner or operator of a quali-
fying security and assured power facility for electricity
generated at such facility. Any facility qualifying under 
this section shall be eligible for an incentive payment for 
up to, but not more than, the first 10,000,000 kilowatt- 
hours produced in any fiscal year. 
(c) ELIGIBILITY.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘qualifying advanced power system 
technology facility’’ means a facility using an ad-
vanced fuel cell, turbine, or hybrid power system or 
power storage system to generate or store electric 
energy; and 
(2) the term ‘‘qualifying security and assured 
power facility’’ means a qualifying advanced power 
system technology facility determined by the Sec-
retary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, to be in critical need of se-
cure, reliable, rapidly available, high-quality power 
for critical governmental, industrial, or commercial 
applications. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Secretary of Energy for the purposes 
of this section, $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2006 through 2012. 
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