H.R. 3100 · 116th Congress
Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2019
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Daniel Lipinski
- Introduced
- 2019-06-05
- Latest action
- 2019-06-05 · Introduced in House
Summary
Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a Climate Solutions Challenges program. Under the program, DOE must carry out competitions that award cash and other incentives for climate and energy solutions, such as
capturing carbon and converting the carbon into a beneficial use, achieving transformative increases in energy efficiency, achieving implementation or grid integration of advanced energy storage technology, providing approaches to mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change, or providing data analytics on the climate and related phenomena.