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§17212 Water Power Technology Research, Development, and Demonstration

Title 42 › CHAPTER 152 — ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER V — ACCELERATED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › Part C — Water Power Research and Development › § 17212

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must run a program to research, develop, test, and help bring water power technologies to market. The program has four goals: make water power larger and less costly, reduce its environmental harm, strengthen the electric grid and create new market roles like ancillary services, and boost economic growth and workforce training in the water power field, including in coastal communities.

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Title 42, §17212

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The Secretary shall carry out a program to conduct research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of water power technologies in support of each of the following purposes:

(1)To promote research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of water power generation technologies in order to increase capacity and reduce the cost of those technologies.

(2)To promote research and development to improve the environmental impact of water power technologies.

(3)To provide grid reliability and resilience, including through technologies that facilitate new market opportunities, such as ancillary services, for water power.

(4)To promote the development of water power technologies to improve economic growth and enhance cross-institutional foundational workforce development in the water power sector, including in coastal communities.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 17212, Pub. L. 110–140, title VI, § 633, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1686, related to marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy research and development, prior to the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 116–260.

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42 U.S.C. § 17212

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102