§16214 Distributed Energy Technology Demonstration Programs

Summary

The Secretary can fund teams of different experts to run demonstrations that speed up use of distributed energy technologies (like fuel cells, microturbines, reciprocating engines, thermally activated technologies, and combined heat and power) in commercial places that use a lot of energy. The Secretary must create a research, development, and demo program to build working models of "small scale portable power devices" and, when possible, use universities with proven expertise. Those universities may form an organization to promote the devices. A "small scale portable power device" is a field‑deployable portable mechanical or electromechanical device used for things like communications, computing, mobility, sensors, medical tools, weapons, optics, cooling, and biological‑agent detection.