HR1453-119

What This Bill Does

The Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2025 adds a reporting requirement to Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act section 41201. Within six months and at least semiannually after that, the Energy Secretary must submit a report to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, House Appropriations Committee, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senate Appropriations Committee, and make the report public in digital online format. For each covered project or other demonstration project administered or supported by the program, the report must include initial contracts or financial assistance agreements with award recipients, related documentation as DOE considers appropriate, material technical or financial milestones that have or have not been met, and material modifications to scope, schedule, funding profile including cost-share requirements, project partners, participating entities, or project budget. DOE may synchronize these reports with other required reports where practicable.

Who Benefits and How

Congressional energy committees, congressional appropriations committees, taxpayers, energy watchdog organizations, clean energy policy researchers, journalists, competing clean-technology developers, and communities hosting demonstration projects benefit from recurring visibility into DOE demonstration contracts, award agreements, milestone slippage, cost-share changes, budget changes, and partner changes. The public can track whether demonstration projects are meeting technical and financial commitments instead of relying on scattered press releases.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Department of Energy, DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations staff, DOE project managers, clean energy demonstration award recipients, project partners, financial assistance administrators, contract officers, digital publication staff, and congressional report reviewers must compile contracts, agreements, milestone data, modifications, funding profiles, cost shares, and budgets every six months and publish the material online.

Key Provisions

• Requires DOE semiannual public digital reports beginning within six months.
• Requires reports to House and Senate science, appropriations, and energy committees.
• Requires copies of initial contracts or financial assistance agreements with award recipients.
• Requires lists of material technical or financial milestones met and not met.
• Requires disclosure of material modifications to scope, schedule, funding profile, cost-share requirements, partners, participating entities, or budget.
• Allows DOE to synchronize the new reports with other required clean energy demonstration reports.