§13523 Management Plan

Summary

The Secretary must write a management plan, with advice from the Advisory Board, to guide research, development, demonstration, and commercial use of energy technologies that match the program’s goals. The plan must cover investigating promising energy and efficiency technologies, developing ones that cut supply risks and hurt the environment or economy less, and creating export chances to help U.S. competitiveness. It must include an inventory and status report on fossil, renewable, nuclear, and energy conservation technologies that are not yet fully reliable or cost-competitive but might be with more work. For each technology the report must say how mature it is; list the main R&D issues, such as capital, operating, and maintenance cost barriers, technical performance, and possible environmental effects; state whether commercial availability is near-term, mid-term, long-term, uncertain, or unlikely; and project future cost-competitiveness versus alternatives. The Secretary must publish the proposed plan for at least 90 days for written public comment, consider those comments, and include a summary of them in the plan. The first plan had to be sent to Congress within one year after October 24, 1992. After that, revised plans must be sent every two years when the President’s annual budget goes to Congress.