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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION H. R. 10220 
To establish the National Institutes of Clean Energy. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2024 
Mr. HUFFMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To establish the National Institutes of Clean Energy. 
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 ‘‘National Institutes of 
Clean Energy Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF CLEAN ENERGY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADVANCED
ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY.—The 
term ‘‘advanced energy technology’’ means a tech-
nology that— 
(A) reduces greenhouse gas emissions with 
high conversion efficiency; 
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(B) minimizes energy, water, and material 
resource use; 
(C) was produced by or helps generate a 
renewable energy source; and 
(D) minimizes environmental harms to or 
negative public health impacts on frontline, vul-
nerable, and disadvantaged communities. 
(2) FRONTLINE, VULNERABLE, AND DISADVAN-
TAGED COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘frontline, vulner-
able, and disadvantaged community’’ means a com-
munity— 
(A) in an area described in section 301(a) 
of the Public Works and Economic Develop-
ment Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3161(a)); and 
(B) in which climate change, pollution, or 
environmental destruction have exacerbated sys-
temic racial, regional, social, environmental, 
gender, and economic injustices by dispropor-
tionately affecting Black, Brown, and Indige-
nous peoples, other communities of color, mi-
grant communities, deindustrialized commu-
nities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, 
low-income workers, women, the elderly, the 
unhoused, people with disabilities, or youth. 
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(3) INSTITUTES.—The term ‘‘Institutes’’ means 
the National Institutes of Clean Energy established 
under subsection (b). 
(4) LAND-GRANT COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.— 
The term ‘‘land-grant college or university’’ means— 
(A) an institution that is eligible to receive 
funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (commonly 
known as the ‘‘First Morrill Act’’) (12 Stat. 
503, chapter 130; 7 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) or the 
Act of August 30, 1890 (commonly known as 
the ‘‘Second Morrill Act’’) (26 Stat. 417, chap-
ter 841; 7 U.S.C. 321 et seq.), including 
Tuskegee University; and 
(B) a 1994 Institution (as defined in sec-
tion 532 of the Equity in Educational Land- 
Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 note; 
Public Law 103–382)). 
(5) 
MINORITY-SERVING
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘‘minority-serving institution’’ means an insti-
tution of higher education described in section 
371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1067q(a)). 
(6) RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE.—The term 
‘‘renewable energy source’’ means energy generated 
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from a renewable source, including the following re-
newable energy sources: 
(A) Solar, including electricity. 
(B) Wind. 
(C) Ocean, including tidal, wave, current, 
and thermal. 
(D) Geothermal, including electricity and 
heat pumps. 
(E) 
Hydroelectric 
generation 
capacity 
achieved from increased efficiency or additions 
of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric 
project that was placed in service on or after 
January 1, 1999. 
(F) Hydrogen derived from a renewable 
energy source. 
(G) Thermal energy generated by any of 
the sources described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (F). 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than January 1, 
2028, there shall be established the National Institutes of 
Clean Energy, which shall be an agency of the Department 
of Energy. 
(c) ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Institutes shall— 
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(A) invest in clean energy science, climate 
science, innovation, and research and develop-
ment to reduce emissions and build climate re-
silience; and 
(B) support— 
(i) clean energy research areas, in-
cluding— 
(I) demonstration projects for 
clean energy and climate research and 
development 
priorities, 
including 
microgrids, energy storage, electric ve-
hicles, and advanced energy tech-
nologies in hard-to-decarbonize sec-
tors, such as the aviation and ship-
ping sectors; and 
(II) clean energy research areas 
that are underrepresented in existing 
Federal research and development 
funding, such as long-duration grid 
storage; 
(ii) research and development projects 
focusing on the impacts of energy produc-
tion in frontline communities, including 
communities of color and low-income com-
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munities, that have been disproportionately 
impacted by environmental injustices; and 
(iii) 
research 
and 
development 
projects focused on impacts of clean energy 
and energy production on job loss, job cre-
ation, and workforce development, particu-
larly in heavily unionized workforce sec-
tors. 
(2) PRIORITY.—In carrying out paragraph (1), 
the Institutes shall give priority to— 
(A) the development of technologies that 
will— 
(i) minimize environmental harms to 
or negative public health impacts on front-
line, vulnerable, and disadvantaged com-
munities; 
(ii) improve the public health of front-
line, vulnerable, and disadvantaged com-
munities; or 
(iii) create high-quality jobs with 
strong labor standards in frontline, vulner-
able, and disadvantaged communities; 
(B) research and development of advanced 
energy technologies; 
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(C) climate science and innovation and 
clean energy technology; 
(D) research and development that will be 
conducted at— 
(i) public universities and colleges; 
(ii) land-grant colleges and univer-
sities; 
(iii) minority-serving institutions, in-
cluding historically Black colleges and uni-
versities; and 
(iv) consortia comprising 1 or more of 
the entities described in clauses (i) through 
(iii); and 
(E) research and development in geo-
graphic areas that have seen the worst job 
losses between 2016 and 2024, including rural 
areas 
and 
areas 
impacted 
by 
deindustrialization. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $400,000,000,000 for the 
period of fiscal years 2025 through 2034 to establish and 
operate the Institutes. 
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