Inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial pledges unprecedented support for clean energy R&D
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of recommendations from federal agencies for the expansion of research opportunities for undergraduate students. The last three titles of the bill cover private sector involvement (IV), manufacturing (V), and innovation, commercialization, and technology transfer (VI). These titles include provisions that allow more flexibility in federal prize competitions, encourage crowdsourcing and citizen science to fulfill agency missions, extend manufacturing partnerships with the private sector, and provide continued support for commercialization of federally funded research. It is important to note that unlike the original COMPETES legislation, the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act does not address policy changes or authorize funding for the DOE Office of Science. Rather, a separate bill, the Energy Title of America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (S.1398), was introduced by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and has been incorporated in part in the comprehensive bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 that has passed both the Senate and House. A conference committee is currently resolving differences between the bills. The version passed by the Senate authorizes a 7% increase in funding for each of the next five years for basic energy research within the DOE (Office of Science and ARPA-E), while
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t the inaugural Mission Innovation (MI) Ministerial, an international organization, held in June, ministers from all Mission Innovation partners released their respective governments’ plans to double clean energy research and development (R&D) funding over five years. Ministers also welcomed the European Commission on behalf of the EU as the 21st partner. “The European Commission is honored to be part of Mission Innovation,” said
European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič. “Scaling up clean energy innovation is key to the success of the European Energy Union and to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It also represents a major global economic and industrial opportunity.” Ministers met with leaders of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition and other leading energy investors, underscoring the critical link between government innovation
also eliminating and consolidating a number of inactive or duplicative DOE programs. The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act covers the remainder of the basic sciences budget and authorizes appropriations for NIST and the NSF for fiscal years (FYs) 2017 and 2018. Authorized levels for NIST increase 1% for FY 2017 and 5% for FY 2018, while levels for the NSF increase 0.05% for FY 2017 and 4.6% for FY 2018 (from baseline FY 2016 funding levels). Despite the relatively modest authorization numbers, the lack of identified offsets may make passage difficult in a Republican-led Congress that has adopted a protocol known as “cut-go” that requires new or increased authorizations to be offset by terminating or reducing fund
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