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handle is hein.crs/goveqhz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * Con gressionol Research Service Informing the Iegisl9tive debate since 1914 0 Updated August 12, 2024 DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Appropriations, FY2025 The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is responsible for renewable energy and end-use energy efficiency technology development. Other activities include issuing grants for home energy efficiency and state energy planning, establishing minimum energy conservation standards for appliances and equipment, and providing technical support. EERE collaborates with industry, academia, national laboratories, and others to conduct and support research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities. EERE also manages programs that support state and local governments, tribes, and schools. Further, EERE oversees and supports the research and infrastructure of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, including its research and development on technologies for renewable energy and energy efficiency. EERE Appropriations EERE generally receives funding through the annual Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies (EWD) appropriations bill. FY2024 EWD funding was enacted as Division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (P.L. 118-42). Division D included $3.460 billion for EERE, the same as in FY2023 in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328). In addition, EERE received funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58). IIJA provided a total of $16.264 billion in additional emergency appropriations for EERE, of which $1.945 billion is for FY2025 (see Table 1). EERE also received $17.962 billion in additional funding through P.L. 117-169 (known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, or IRA) in FY2022, expiring at the end of FY2026, FY2027, FY2029, or FY203 1, depending on the provision. xecutive ranch Actions The total request for FY2025, including three newly proposed accounts, is $3.869 billion-an 11.8% increase over the FY2024 enacted level. The Biden Administration requested $3.118 billion for the EERE organization by itself. The remainder of the FY2025 request includes $751.4 million for three new accounts for activities currently managed elsewhere in DOE by the Under Secretary for Infrastructure. These proposed accounts are the Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP), the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), and the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), whose activities were funded in the EERE account in FY2024. Program direction for all four accounts in the FY2025 budget request comprises 7.0% of the total request. Overall, DOE's stated goal for EERE funding is to invest in programmatic priority areas for lowering the U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) profile. Specific proposed funding increases were aimed at decarbonization activities in the electricity sector, the transportation industry, and energy- intensive industries; reducing the carbon footprint of buildings; and energy-related aspects of the agriculture sector, especially the energy-water nexus. Other priorities include ensuring economic benefits go to communities that might be impacted by DOE's envisaged transition of the energy system or that might be disproportionately affected by pollution. Legs ative Actions The House Appropriations Committee reported, on July 11, 2024, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 (H.R. 8997), which would appropriate a net total of $1.960 billion for EERE after accounting for budget structure changes. H.Rept. 118-580, which accompanied H.R. 8997, makes use of $803.7 million in prior-year balances from recent supplemental bills. This could include appropriations provided by the IRA and IIJA. In the report, the committee recommends $2.764 billion in gross budget authority for EERE activities for FY2025. In the tables in the report, the committee applies $803.7 million of prior-year balances against the committee's recommendations for FY2025 to equal the net budget authority of $1.960 billion in the bill, H.R. 8997. On August 1, 2024, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025, S. 4927, which would appropriate $3.440 billion for the EERE account plus $20 million for the MESC account proposed by DOE, which together match the FY2024 enacted level for the EERE account ($3.460 billion).

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