It's just telling that you've got an authoritarian playbook that sort of, at every pass, seems to be more focused on driving up corporate profits at the expense of the American people.
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Department of Energy and Related Commissions
New Policies
• Eliminate OCED. The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all DOE energy demonstration programs, including those in OCED. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to subsidize preferred businesses and energy resources, thereby distorting the market and undermining energy reliability.
• Refocus on resources that will support reliability. To the extent that the various energy research and development funding authorities cannot be repealed, funded projects should be consistent with the programmatic goals of the next Administration. For example, the already awarded Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program should help to move SMRs from pilot scale to commercialization and in the process address material, fuel, and regulatory issues that would pose deployment risk to utilities and Wall Street.
Budget DOE’s FY 2023 budget request includes $214 million “to initiate a new $150
million competition to support demonstrations that address integration issues of
renewable energy into the U.S. transmission and distribution grids.”*” Overall, the
“$21.5 billion provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” supports several
OCED programs:
• Advanced Reactor Demonstration Projects ($2.5 billion).
• Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Projects ($937 million).
• Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program ($2.5 billion).
• Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land ($500 million).
• Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas ($1 billion).
• Industrial Demonstrations Program ($6.3 billion).
• Long Duration Energy Storage Demonstrations ($505 million). • Regional Clean Energy Hubs ($8 billion).
• Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs ($3.5 billion).**