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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
NONDEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES
[CLERK'S NOTE.-The subcommittee was unable to hold hearings
on nondepartmental witnesses. The statements and letters of those
submitting written testimony are as follows:]
PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT
ECONOMY
Chair Feinstein, Ranking Member Kennedy, and members of the subcommittee,
the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) appreciates the op-
portunity to provide written testimony on the appropriations and activities of the
Federal agencies under the subcommittee's jurisdiction. ACEEE, a nonprofit re-
search organization, develops transformative policies to reduce energy waste and
combat climate change. With our independent analysis, we aim to build a vibrant
and equitable economy-one that uses energy more productively, reduces costs, pro-
tects the environment, and promotes the health, safety, and well-being of everyone.
While we strongly support funding for a wide variety of energy efficiency programs
as detailed in a joint letter, this testimony focuses on more details on funds needed
for the Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and other
priority areas to further much needed industrial decarbonization efforts. For the
Fiscal Year 2023 budget ACEEE recommends that funding for the Department of
Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) be increased to $600 million from
$416 million in FY22 to accommodate the more ambitious agenda of decarbonizing
US manufacturing by midcentury, supported by the enactment last Congress of the
Energy Act of 2020 and the Clean Industrial Technology Act. This goal also requires
funding for industrial decarbonization activities in offices beyond AMO in light of
the ongoing departmental reorganization. Thus we also seek $200 million for trans-
formative technology adoption at the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
(OECD) and funding for two programs within Manufacturing and Energy Supply
Chains (MESC): $30 million for Industrial Assessment Centers and $40 million for
the establishment of a Flex-Tech program.
Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO): $600 million to enable the research, devel-
opment, demonstration and deployment of industrial energy efficiency and advanced
manufacturing technologies. This level of funding is intended to accommodate an
ambitious agenda of decarbonizing US manufacturing by the midcentury. This goal
of dramatic reductions requires increases in activity levels across the office and
some important changes in the orientation of the office's goals. AMO should expand
its efforts from promoting energy efficiency to include reducing carbon emissions for
manufacturing and reducing the embodied carbon in manufactured products more
broadly. We expect DOE to release its long-delayed industrial decarbonization road-
map very soon, and as AMO rebuilds its staffing, the office should focus on adding
expertise in important decarbonization technology areas identified in its research
road mapping.
While we support providing AMO increased flexibility in funding in order to reori-
ent the office to the challenge of industrial decarbonization most effectively, we
think the following programs and objective should be part of the office's direction
and have included our estimate of FY23 funding needed:
-Technical Assistance and Workforce Development:
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