42 USC 13313 - Renewable Energy Advancement Awards

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 13313.

Renewable Energy Advancement Awards

(a)

Authority

(b)

Selection criteria

The Secretary, in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Demonstration and Commercial Application of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies (in this section referred to as the “Advisory Committee”), under section 12005 of this title, shall develop criteria to be applied in the selection of award recipients under this section. Such criteria shall include the following:

(1)

The degree to which the technological development increases the utilization of renewable energy.

(2)

The degree to which the development will have a significant impact, by benefitting a large number of people, by reducing the costs of an important industrial process or commercial product or service, or otherwise.

(3)

The ingenuity of the development.

(4)

Whether the application has significant export potential.

(5)

The environmental soundness of the development.

(c)

Selection

(d)

Eligibility

(e)

Authorization of appropriations

(f)

Awards made in absence of appropriations

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XII, § 1204, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2961.)

cite as: 42 USC 13313