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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. CON-
NOLLY, 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 Nat-
ural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Energy Innova-
tion 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 imme-
diately 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 move-
ment 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 im-
pacts communities of color while building a more eq-
uitable energy system. 
(3) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C 
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, devel-
opment, and demonstration is one essential piece of 
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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 Agree-
ment. 
(6) While appropriations for clean energy re-
search and development have grown since 2015, cur-
rent Federal investments in clean energy are signifi-
cantly 
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 af-
fordable energy system. 
(8) Increases in funding for the Department of 
Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency—En-
ergy, Office of Electricity, Office of Indian Energy 
Policy, and Office of Science clean energy programs, 
which include basic energy sciences, biological and 
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environmental research, fusion research and ad-
vanced 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 manu-
facturing; and advance United States economic com-
petitiveness 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 tech-
nology related to industrial emissions, energy stor-
age, and smart grid deployment. 
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(12) According to the International Energy 
Agency, demonstration is an important part of the 
development of new technologies that includes de-
sign, construction, and operation of a prototype of a 
technology at or near commercial scale with the pur-
pose of providing technical, economic, and environ-
mental information to industrialists, financiers, reg-
ulators, and policymakers. 
(13) Department of Energy research, develop-
ment, and demonstration have already resulted in in-
novation and cost reduction across clean energy 
technologies and, with increased funding, has the po-
tential 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 in-
vestments 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 dem-
onstration funding for the noted programs is not 
sufficient on its own to address the climate crisis, 
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but it is an essential step that must be coupled with 
a suite of climate polices and investments to maxi-
mize 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 cli-
mate change, such as by participating in strategic 
goal setting and engaging broadly with stakeholders, 
including industries, utilities, labor unions, and im-
pacted communities, especially environmental justice 
communities; 
(4) increased Federal investments in energy re-
search 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 commu-
nities and communities of color; 
(5) it is important for these programs to main-
tain a comprehensive approach to innovation that in-
cludes early-, mid-, and late-stage research, develop-
ment, and market transformation activities; and 
(6) a modernization of Department of Energy 
clean energy programs would enable even greater 
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progress to help address the climate crisis, includ-
ing— 
(A) an update to the Department of Ener-
gy’s mission to explicitly include mitigating cli-
mate 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-reduc-
ing 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 com-
munities, and communities disproportionally im-
pacted 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 mar-
ket and ensure that our investments translate 
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into domestic manufacturing and good jobs; 
and 
(D) elevate and target more resources to-
ward the Department of Energy’s work to ad-
dress difficult-to-decarbonize sectors, such as 
transportation, building, and industrial sectors. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATIONS. 
(a) OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEW-
ABLE 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—EN-
ERGY.—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; 
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‘‘(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 pro-
grams and activities of the Office of Electricity of the De-
partment 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 PRO-
GRAMS.—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 De-
partment of Energy— 
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(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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