§13523 Management Plan

Summary

Requires the Secretary, working with the Advisory Board, to make a management plan for researching, developing, demonstrating, and bringing energy technologies into commercial use that match the program’s goals. The plan must cover looking into promising technologies, developing technologies that lower energy supply risks and reduce harm to the environment, climate, and economy, and creating chances to export U.S. energy technologies to improve competitiveness. The Secretary must also make an inventory and status report of fossil, renewable, nuclear, and energy-conservation technologies that are not yet fully reliable or cost-competitive but might become so with more work. For each technology the report must say how mature it is; list main research and development problems, including cost barriers, technical performance limits, and possible environmental effects; state whether commercial availability is near-term, mid-term, long-term, too uncertain to predict, or unlikely; and estimate future cost-competitiveness versus alternatives. The proposed plan must be published for at least a 90-day public comment period, those comments must be considered and summarized, and the first plan had to be sent to Congress within one year after October 24, 1992. After that, the Secretary must send an updated plan every two years when the President submits the annual budget.