Technologies for Energy Jobs and Security Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1409
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2017-06-22
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources

Business investment and capital

Electric power generation and transmission

Energy efficiency and conservation

Income tax credits

Lighting and heating

Lighting, heating, cooling

Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-06-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Technologies for Energy Jobs and Security Act of 2017 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify tax credits for residential energy efficient property and investments in energy property. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>The bill extends the tax credit for investments in energy property for the following property with construction that begins before January 1, 2022: </p> <ul> <li> fiber-optic solar energy property, </li> <li>thermal energy property. </li> <li> fuel cell property, </li> <li> microturbine property, </li> <li> combined heat and power system property, and</li> <li> small wind energy property.</li> </ul> <p>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. </p> <p>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. &quot;Waste heat to power property&quot; is property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1409 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 A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for residential energy efficient property, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Technologies for Energy Jobs and Security Act of 2017 . 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. 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. 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).