Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§9006 Program Selection Criteria

Title 42 › CHAPTER 98 — OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › § 9006

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must choose program activities and set priorities using five rules. The program must aim to make ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) cost-competitive with regular power. It should favor projects that bring cost-sharing money from private, industrial, utility, or government partners. It should support OTEC for coasts, islands, and isolated military sites at risk of fuel interruptions. It must prefer U.S.-based people and firms to build a domestic OTEC industry, and it should favor pilot and demo projects where applicants say they will become part of the industry.

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Title 42, §9006

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The Secretary shall, in fulfilling his responsibilities under this chapter, select program activities and set priorities which are consistent with the following criteria:

(1)realization of energy production costs for ocean thermal energy conversion systems that are competitive with costs from conventional energy production systems;

(2)encouragement of projects for which contributions to project costs are forthcoming from private, industrial, utility, or governmental entities for the purpose of sharing with the Federal Government the costs of purchasing and installing ocean thermal energy conversion systems;

(3)promotion of ocean thermal energy conversion facilities for coastal areas, islands, and isolated military institutions which are vulnerable to interruption in the fossil fuel supply;

(4)preference for and priority to persons and domestic firms whose base of operations is in the United States as will assure that the program under this chapter promotes the development of a United States domestic technology for ocean thermal energy conversion; and

(5)preference for proposals for pilot and demonstration projects in which the respondents certify their intent to become an integral part of the industrial infrastructure necessary to meet the goals of this chapter.

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42 U.S.C. § 9006

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102