American Clean Energy and Security Act

American Clean Energy and Security Act ( Reference Source )

Subtitle D--Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs

SEC. 241. INDUSTRIAL PLANT ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS.

The Secretary of Energy shall continue to support the development of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) voluntary industrial plant energy efficiency certification program, pending International Standards Organization (ISO) consensus standard 50001, and other related ANSI/ISO standards. In addition, the Department shall undertake complementary activities through the Department of Energy’s Industry Technologies Program that support the voluntary implementation of such standards by manufacturing firms. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as are necessary to carry out these activities. The Secretary shall report to Congress on the status of standards development and plans for further standards development pursuant to this section by not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and shall prepare a second such report 18 months thereafter.

SEC. 242. ELECTRIC AND THERMAL WASTE ENERGY RECOVERY AWARD PROGRAM.

(a) Electric and Thermal Waste Energy Recovery Awards- The Secretary of Energy shall establish a program to make monetary awards to the owners and operators of new and existing electric energy generation facilities or thermal energy production facilities using fossil or nuclear fuel, to encourage them to use innovative means of recovering any thermal energy that is a potentially useful byproduct of electric power generation or other processes to--

(1) generate additional electric energy; or

(2) make sales of thermal energy not used for electric generation, in the form of steam, hot water, chilled water, or desiccant regeneration, or for other commercially valid purposes.

(b) Amount of Awards-

(1) ELIGIBILITY- Awards shall be made under subsection (a) only for the use of innovative means that achieve net energy efficiency at the facility concerned significantly greater than the current standard technology in use at similar facilities.

(2) AMOUNT- The amount of an award made under subsection (a) shall equal an amount up to the value of 25 percent of the energy projected to be recovered or generated during the first 5 years of operation of the facility using the innovative energy recovery method, or such lesser amount that the Secretary determines to be the minimum amount that can cost-effectively stimulate such innovation.

(3) LIMITATION- No person may receive an award under this section if a grant under the waste energy incentive grant program under section 373 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6343) is made for the same energy savings resulting from the same innovative method.

(1) assist State regulatory commissions to identify and make changes in State regulatory programs for electric utilities to provide appropriate regulatory status for thermal energy byproduct businesses of regulated electric utilities to encourage those utilities to enter businesses making the sales referred to in subsection (a)(2); and

(2) encourage self-regulated utilities to enter businesses making the sales referred to in subsection (a)(2).

(d) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy such sums as are necessary for the purposes of this section.

SEC. 243. CLARIFYING ELECTION OF WASTE HEAT RECOVERY FINANCIAL INCENTIVES.

Section 373(e) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6343(e)) is amended--

(1) by striking ‘that qualifies for’ and inserting ‘who elects to claim’; and

(2) by inserting ‘from that project’ after ‘for waste heat recovery’.

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