Title: Technologies for Energy Jobs and Security Act of 2017
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Technologies for Energy Jobs and Security Act of 2017
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify tax credits for residential energy efficient property and investments in energy property.
The bill modifies the tax credit for residential energy efficient property to extend through 2021 the credits for expenditures for fuel cell property, small wind energy property, and geothermal heat pump property. For each extended credit, the bill phases out the current credit rate of 30% of expenditures by reducing it to 26% or 22%, depending on the date that the property is placed in service.
The bill extends the tax credit for investments in energy property for the following property with construction that begins before January 1, 2022:
The bill phases out the current credit rate of 30% for investments in geothermal energy property, fiber-optic solar energy property, fuel cell property, and small wind energy property by reducing it to 26% or 22%, depending on the date that the property is placed in service.
The bill also allows an energy tax credit through 2021 for investment in waste heat to power property that does not have a capacity in excess of 50 megawatts. "Waste heat to power property" is property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1409 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1409

  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for 
     residential energy efficient property, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2017

Mr. Carper (for himself and Mr. Heller) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for 
     residential energy efficient property, 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 ``Technologies for Energy Jobs and 
Security Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND PHASEOUT OF RESIDENTIAL ENERGY EFFICIENT 
              PROPERTY.

    (a) Extension.--Section 25D(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by striking ``December 31, 2016 (December 31, 2021, in the 
case of any qualified solar electric property expenditures and 
qualified solar water heating property expenditures)'', and inserting 
``December 31, 2021''.
    (b) Phaseout.--
            (1) In general.--Paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of section 
        25D(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 are amended by 
        striking ``30 percent'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``the applicable percentage''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 25D(g) of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``paragraphs (1) 
        and (2) of''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on January 1, 2017.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION AND PHASEOUT OF ENERGY CREDIT.

    (a) Credit Percentage for Geothermal Energy Property.--Section 
48(a)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by 
striking ``paragraph (3)(A)(i)'' and inserting ``clause (i) or (iii) of 
paragraph (3)(A)''.
    (b) Extension of Solar and Thermal Energy Property.--Section 
48(a)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii) by striking ``periods ending before 
        January 1, 2017'' and inserting ``property the construction of 
        which begins before January 1, 2022''; and
            (2) in clause (vii) by striking ``periods ending before 
        January 1, 2017'' and inserting ``property the construction of 
        which begins before January 1, 2022''.
    (c) Phaseout of 30-Percent Credit Rate for Geothermal Energy 
Property.--Section 48(a)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and geothermal'' after 
        ``solar'';
            (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``paragraph 
        (3)(A)(i)'' and inserting ``clause (i) or (iii) of paragraph 
        (3)(A)''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``property energy 
        property described in paragraph (3)(A)(i)'' and inserting 
        ``energy property described in clause (i) or (iii) of paragraph 
        (3)(A)''.
    (d) Phaseout of 30-Percent Credit Rate for Fiber-Optic Solar, 
Qualified Fuel Cell, and Qualified Small Wind Energy Property.--
            (1) In general.--Section 48(a) of the Internal Revenue Code 
        of 1986 is amended by adding the following:
            ``(7) Phaseout for fiber-optic solar, qualified fuel cell, 
        and qualified small wind energy property.--In the case of any 
        energy property described in paragraph (3)(A)(ii), qualified 
        fuel cell property, or qualified small wind property, the 
        energy percentage determined under paragraph (2) shall be equal 
        to--
                    ``(A) in the case of any property the construction 
                of which begins after December 31, 2019, and before 
                January 1, 2021, 26 percent, and
                    ``(B) in the case of any property the construction 
                of which begins after December 31, 2020, and before 
                January 1, 2022, 22 percent.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 48(a)(2)(A) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
        ``paragraph (6)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (6) and (7)''.
    (e) Extension of Qualified Fuel Cell Property.--Section 48(c)(1)(D) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``for any 
period after December 31, 2016'' and inserting ``the construction of 
which does not begin before January 1, 2022''.
    (f) Extension of Qualified Microturbine Property.--Section 
48(c)(2)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
``for any period after December 31, 2016'' and inserting ``the 
construction of which does not begin before January 1, 2022''.
    (g) Extension of Combined Heat and Power System Property.--Section 
48(c)(3)(A)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by 
striking ``which is placed in service before January 1, 2017'' and 
inserting ``the construction of which begins before January 1, 2022''.
    (h) Extension of Qualified Small Wind Energy Property.--Section 
48(c)(4)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
``for any period after December 31, 2016'' and inserting ``the 
construction of which does not begin before January 1, 2022''.
    (i) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on January 1, 2017.

SEC. 4. WASTE HEAT TO POWER PROPERTY.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Introduction of waste to heat power energy property.--
        Section 48(a)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
        amended--
                    (A) at the end of clause (vi) by striking ``or''; 
                and
                    (B) at the end of clause (vii) by inserting ``or'' 
                after the comma; and
                    (C) by adding the following:
                            ``(viii) waste heat to power property,''.
            (2) Definitions and limitations.--Section 48(c) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding the 
        following:
            ``(5) Waste heat to power property.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The term `waste heat to power 
                property' means property--
                            ``(i) comprising a system which generates 
                        electricity through the recovery of a qualified 
                        waste heat resource, and
                            ``(ii) the construction of which begins 
                        before January 1, 2022.
                    ``(B) Qualified waste heat resource.--The term 
                `qualified waste heat resource' means--
                            ``(i) exhaust heat or flared gas from an 
                        industrial process that does not have, as its 
                        primary purpose, the production of electricity, 
                        and
                            ``(ii) a pressure drop in any gas for an 
                        industrial or commercial process.
                    ``(C) Limitations.--
                            ``(i) In general.--For purposes of 
                        subsection (a)(1), the basis of any waste heat 
                        to power property taken into account under this 
                        section shall not exceed the excess of--
                                    ``(I) the basis of such property, 
                                over
                                    ``(II) the fair market value of 
                                comparable property which does not have 
                                the capacity to capture and convert a 
                                qualified waste heat resource to 
                                electricity.
                            ``(ii) Capacity limitation.--The term 
                        `waste heat to power property' shall not 
                        include any property comprising a system if 
                        such system has a capacity in excess of 50 
                        megawatts.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to periods after December 31, 2016, in taxable years ending after 
such date, under rules similar to the rules of section 48(m) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as in effect on the day before the date 
of the enactment of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990).
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