Financing Our Energy Future Act

Bill: 117-s-1034
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2021-03-25
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality

Alternative and renewable resources

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Corporate finance and management

Electric power generation and transmission

Energy storage, supplies, demand

Lighting, heating, cooling

Motor fuels

Nuclear power

Solid waste and recycling

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-25
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Financing Our Energy Future Act</strong></p> <p>The bill extends the tax treatment of certain publicly traded partnerships as corporations to renewable and alternative energy projects, transportation fuels, and nuclear-generated electricity facilities. Under current law the tax treatment of such partnerships is only available to investors in energy portfolios for oil, natural gas, coal extraction, and pipeline projects.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1034 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 25, 2021 Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Moran , Mr. King , Mr. Carper , Ms. Ernst , Ms. Collins , Mr. Warner , Mr. Braun , Ms. Stabenow , Mr. Crapo , and Mr. Bennet ) 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 publicly traded partnership ownership structure to energy power generation projects and transportation fuels, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Financing Our Energy Future Act . 2. Green energy publicly traded partnerships (a) In general Section 7704(d)(1)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (1) by striking income and gains derived from the exploration and inserting income and gains derived from— (i) the exploration , (2) by inserting or before industrial source , and (3) by striking , or the transportation or storage and all that follows and inserting the following: (ii) the generation of electric power or thermal energy exclusively using any qualified energy resource (as defined in section 45(c)(1)), (iii) the operation of energy property (as defined in section 48(a)(3), determined without regard to any date by which the construction of the facility is required to begin), (iv) in the case of a facility described in paragraph (3) or (7) of section 45(d) (determined without regard to any placed in service date or date by which construction of the facility is required to begin), the accepting or processing of open-loop biomass or municipal solid waste, (v) the storage of electric power or thermal energy exclusively using equipment (other than equipment primarily used in the transportation of goods or individuals and not for the production of electricity) which— (I) uses batteries, compressed air, pumped hydropower, hydrogen storage (including hydrolysis and electrolysis), thermal energy storage, regenerative fuel cells, flywheels, capacitors, superconducting magnets, or other technologies identified by the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to store energy for conversion to electricity and has a capacity of not less than 5 kilowatt hours, or (II) stores thermal energy to heat or cool (or provide hot water for use in) a structure (other than for use in a swimming pool), (vi) the generation, storage, or distribution of electric power or thermal energy exclusively using energy property that is combined heat and power system property (as defined in section 48(c)(3), determined without regard to subparagraph (B)(iii) thereof and without regard to any date by which the construction of the facility is required to begin), (vii) the transportation or storage of any fuel described in subsection (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 6426, (viii) the conversion of renewable biomass (as defined in subparagraph (I) of section 211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this clause)) into renewable fuel (as defined in subparagraph (J) of such section as so in effect), or the storage or transportation of such fuel, (ix) the production, storage, or transportation of any fuel which— (I) uses as its primary feedstock carbon oxides captured from an anthropogenic source or the atmosphere, (II) does not use as its primary feedstock carbon oxide which is deliberately released from naturally occurring subsurface springs, and (III) is determined by the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to achieve a reduction of not less than a 60 percent in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions (as defined in section 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act, as in effect on the date of the enactment of this clause) compared to baseline lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions (as defined in section 211(o)(1)(C) of such Act, as so in effect), (x) the generation of electric power from a qualifying gasification project (as defined in section 48B(c)(1) without regard to subparagraph (C)) that is described in section 48B(d)(1)(B), (xi) in the case of a qualified facility (as defined in section 45Q(d), without regard to any date by which construction of the facility is required to begin) not less than 50 percent (30 percent in the case of a facility placed in service before January 1, 2022) of the total carbon oxide production of which is qualified carbon oxide (as defined in section 45Q(c))— (I) the generation, availability for such generation, or storage of electric power at such facility, or (II) the capture of carbon dioxide by such facility, (xii) the generation of electric power or energy from any advanced nuclear facility (as defined in section 45J(d)(2), determined by substituting December 31, 2018 for December 31, 1993 ), or (xiii) the production, storage, or transportation of any renewable chemical which— (I) is produced in the United States (or in a territory or possession of the United States) from renewable biomass, (II) is not less than 95 percent biobased content, (III) is not sold or used for the production of any food, feed, fuel, or pharmaceuticals, (IV) is approved to use the USDA Certified Biobased Product label under section 9002(b) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 8102(b) ), and (V) is a chemical intermediate (as such term is defined in section 3201.109 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)), . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.