Title: Clean Energy Innovation Funding Act of 2020
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Clean Energy Innovation Funding Act of 2020
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Science, the Office of Electricity, and the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs of the Department of Energy.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7827 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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. Barragan, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Wild, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. 
Huffman, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Velazquez, 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

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Energy Innovation 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 immediately 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 movement 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 impacts communities of color while building 
        a more equitable 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, development, and demonstration is 
        one essential piece of 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 
        Agreement.
            (6) While appropriations for clean energy research and 
        development have grown since 2015, current Federal investments 
        in clean energy are significantly 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 affordable energy system.
            (8) Increases in funding for the Department of Energy 
        Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced 
        Research Projects Agency--Energy, Office of Electricity, Office 
        of Indian Energy Policy, and Office of Science clean energy 
        programs, which include basic energy sciences, biological and 
        environmental research, fusion research and advanced 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 
        manufacturing; and advance United States economic 
        competitiveness 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 technology related to industrial 
        emissions, energy storage, and smart grid deployment.
            (12) According to the International Energy Agency, 
        demonstration is an important part of the development of new 
        technologies that includes design, construction, and operation 
        of a prototype of a technology at or near commercial scale with 
        the purpose of providing technical, economic, and environmental 
        information to industrialists, financiers, regulators, and 
        policymakers.
            (13) Department of Energy research, development, and 
        demonstration have already resulted in innovation and cost 
        reduction across clean energy technologies and, with increased 
        funding, has the potential 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 investments 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 demonstration 
        funding for the noted programs is not sufficient on its own to 
        address the climate crisis, but it is an essential step that 
        must be coupled with a suite of climate polices and investments 
        to maximize 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 climate change, such as by 
        participating in strategic goal setting and engaging broadly 
        with stakeholders, including industries, utilities, labor 
        unions, and impacted communities, especially environmental 
        justice communities;
            (4) increased Federal investments in energy research 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 communities and communities of color;
            (5) it is important for these programs to maintain a 
        comprehensive approach to innovation that includes early-, mid-
        , and late-stage research, development, and market 
        transformation activities; and
            (6) a modernization of Department of Energy clean energy 
        programs would enable even greater progress to help address the 
        climate crisis, including--
                    (A) an update to the Department of Energy's mission 
                to explicitly include mitigating climate 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-reducing 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 communities, and communities 
                disproportionally impacted 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 market and ensure that our 
                investments translate into domestic manufacturing and 
                good jobs; and
                    (D) elevate and target more resources toward the 
                Department of Energy's work to address difficult-to-
                decarbonize sectors, such as transportation, building, 
                and industrial sectors.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATIONS.

    (a) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable 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--Energy.--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;
                    ``(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 programs and activities of the 
Office of Electricity of the Department 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 Programs.--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 Department of Energy--
            (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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