POWER Act

Bill: 114-s-1516
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2015-06-04
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital

Energy efficiency and conservation

Environmental technology

Income tax credits

Lighting and heating

Lighting, heating, cooling
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3779-3780)

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Power Efficiency and Resiliency Act or the POWER Act</strong></p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a 30% energy tax credit for combined heat and power system property and increase the capacity limitations for such property, (2) extend until December 31, 2018, the placed-in-service deadline for such property, and (3) allow a 30% energy tax credit for waste heat to power property (property comprising a system generating electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource) placed in service before January 1, 2019. </p> <p>Includes within the definition of "qualified waste heat resource": (1)&nbsp;exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process; (2)&nbsp;waste gas or industrial tail gas that would otherwise be flared, incinerated, or vented;&nbsp;and (3)&nbsp;a pressure drop in any gas for an industrial or commercial process. Excludes from such definition any heat resource from a process the primary purpose of which is the generation of electricity utilizing a fossil fuel or nuclear energy. </p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1516 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 4, 2015 Ms. Collins (for herself and Mr. Casey ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the energy credit to provide greater incentives for industrial energy efficiency.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Power Efficiency and Resiliency Act or as the POWER Act . 2. Modifications in credit for combined heat and power system property (a) Increased energy percentage Clause (i) of section 48(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking and at the end of subclause (III), by redesignating subclause (IV) as subclause (V), and by inserting after subclause (III) the following new subclause: (IV) energy property described in paragraph (3)(A)(v), and . (b) Modification of certain capacity limitations Section 48(c)(3)(B) of such Code is amended— (1) by striking 15 megawatts in clause (ii) and inserting 25 megawatts , (2) by striking 20,000 horsepower in clause (ii) and inserting 34,000 horsepower , and (3) by striking clause (iii). (c) Extension of credit for combined heat and power system property Section 48(c)(3)(A)(iv) of such Code is amended by striking January 1, 2017 and inserting January 1, 2019 . (d) Effective date (1) In general Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this section shall apply to periods after the date of the enactment of this Act, 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). (2) Extension of credit The amendments made by subsection (c) shall apply to property placed in service after December 31, 2016. 3. Energy credit for waste heat to power property (a) In general Subparagraph (A) of section 48(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking or at the end of clause (vi), by inserting or at the end of clause (vii), and by adding at the end the following new clause: (viii) waste heat to power property, . (b) Waste heat To power property Subsection (c) of section 48 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) Waste heat to power property (A) Waste heat to power property The term waste heat to power property means property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource. (B) Qualified waste heat resource defined The term qualified waste heat resource means— (i) exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process, (ii) waste gas or industrial tail gas that would otherwise be flared, incinerated, or vented, (iii) a pressure drop in any gas for an industrial or commercial process, or (iv) such other forms of waste heat resources as the Secretary may determine. (C) Exception The term qualified waste heat resource does not include any heat resource from a process whose primary purpose is the generation of electricity utilizing a fossil fuel or nuclear energy. (D) Termination The term waste heat to power property shall not include any property placed in service after December 31, 2018. . (c) Increased energy percentage Clause (i) of section 48(a)(2)(A) of such Code, as amended by section 2(a) of this Act, is further amended by inserting after the new subclause (V) the following new subclause: (VI) energy property described in paragraph (3)(A)(viii), and . (d) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to periods after the date of the enactment of this Act, 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).