Summary: American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 - Title I: Clean Energy Technology Deployment - Subtitle A: Clean Energy Financing - (Sec. 103) Establishes in the Treasury the Clean Energy Investment Fund, consisting of: (1) amounts appropriated for administrative expenses to implement a loan guarantee program that provides incentives for innovative technologies; and (2) amounts deposited in or appropriated for the Fund. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise provisions concerning such program, including by revising the definition of "commercial technology," requiring payments from the borrower to not be a debt obligation that is made or guaranteed by the federal government, and requiring fees collected under such program to be deposited into the Fund (currently, the Treasury). (Sec. 104) Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop, publish for public review and comment, and review goals for the deployment of clean energy technologies through the credit support programs established by this Act to establish or promote specified energy generation, transmission, and use and energy technology manufacturing capacities. Defines "clean energy technology" to mean a technology related to the production, use, transmission, storage, control, or conservation of energy that will: (1) reduce the need for additional energy supplies by using existing energy supplies with greater efficiency or by transmitting, distributing, or transporting energy with greater effectiveness through U.S. infrastructure; (2) diversify the sources of U.S. energy supply to strengthen energy security and to increase supplies with a favorable balance of environmental effects if the entire technology system is considered; or (3) contribute to a stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations through reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of energy-related emissions. (Sec. 105) Establishes in DOE a Clean Energy Deployment (CED) Administration, under the direction of an Administrator and a Board of Directors. Establishes the Administrator's duties, including developing policies that will promote: (1) a self-sustaining portfolio of investments that will maximize the value of investments to effectively promote clean energy technologies; (2) the participation of private financial institutions and other sources of private capital on commercially reasonable terms; and (3) the availability of financial products to small business through working with entities that have appropriate expertise extending credit or other relevant financial services to small companies developing clean energy technologies. Establishes an Energy Technology Advisory Council to: (1) develop and publish for public comment a methodology for assessment of clean energy technologies that will allow the CED Administration to evaluate projects based on the progress likely to be achieved per-dollar invested in maximizing the attributes of the definition of clean energy technology; and (2) advise on the technical approaches that should be supported by the CED Administration to meet the technology deployment goals established by the Secretary. (Sec. 106) Authorizes the CED Administration to issue direct loans, letters of credit, loan guarantees, insurance products, or such other credit enhancements to deploy clean energy technologies. Requires the Administrator to establish an expected loan loss reserve to account for estimated losses attributable to clean energy deployment activities. Requires the CED Administration to: (1) use a portfolio investment approach to mitigate risk and diversify investments across technologies; (2) weigh the portfolio of investments in projects to advance such goals; and (3) provide the maximum practicable percentage of support to promote breakthrough technologies. Requires: (1) the Board to review annually the loss rates of the portfolio to determine the adequacy of the reserves; and (2) the Administrator to report to Congress on such review. Requires the CED Administration to develop: (1) financial products and arrangements to promote the widespread deployment of, and mobilize private sector support of credit and investment institutions for, clean energy technologies by facilitating aggregation of small projects and by providing indirect credit support; and (2) debt instruments that aggregate projects for clean energy technology deployments on a scale appropriate for residential or commercial applications. Describes the Administration's lending and credit authorities. Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish eligibility criteria for loan originators, sellers, and services seeking support for portfolios of financial obligations relating to clean energy technologies so as to ensure the capability of the loan originators, sellers, and servicers to perform the functions required to maintain the expected performance of the portfolios; and (2) determine the volume of the CED Administration's lending activities and the types of loan ratios, risk profiles, interest rates, maturities, and charges or fees. Considers securities issued or guaranteed by the CED Administration to be exempt securities within the meaning of the laws of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the same extent as securities that are direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed as to principal or interest by, the United States. (Sec. 108) Establishes reporting requirements. Reverts the CED Administration's authorities and obligations to the Secretary on January 1, 2029. Subtitle B: Improved Transmission Siting - (Sec. 121) Amends the Federal Power Act to state as U.S. policy that the national interstate transmission system should be guided by the goal of maximizing the net benefits of the electricity system. Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to: (1) coordinate regional planning to ensure that regional plans are integrated into an interconnection-wide transmission plan with respect to high-priority national transmission projects; and (2) issue a rule on national electricity grid planning principles. Authorizes public utilities, transmitting utilities, Regional Transmission Organizations, Independent System Operators, regional entities, or other multistate organizations or entities to develop a regional plan relating to high-priority national transmission projects that is consistent with FERC's planning principles. Requires any public or transmitting utility that does not participate in regional plans to develop its own plan relating to any high priority national transmission project planned for the utility's system. Applies planning principles and requirements to each transmission owner and transmission planing entity in the U.S. portion of the Eastern and Western Interconnections. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) siting high-priority national transmission projects and authorizing the operation, construction, acquisition, or modification of such projects; and (2) coordinating the authorization to site a transmission facility on federal land. Requires FERC to: (1) encourage the submission of a single Interconnection-wide plan for high priority national transmission projects; and (2) evaluate whether high-priority national transmission projects are being constructed in accordance with the Interconnection-wide transmission grid plan for high-priority national transmission projects for both the Western and Eastern Interconnection areas; and (3) recommend to Congress any action or authority needed to ensure the development of high-priority national transmission projects and transmission projects to access regional and offshore renewable energy generation. Requires the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress recommendations for future action or authority need to ensure the development of demand response, energy storage, distributed generation, and energy efficiency. States as U.S. policy that long-term transmission rights of firmness and duration sufficient to support generation investment shall be available under appropriate terms and conditions to load-serving entities for long-term power supply arrangements for new generation facilities using renewable energy. Defines "renewable energy" to mean electric energy generated from solar energy, wind energy, marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy, geothermal energy, hydropower, biomass, or landfill gas. Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct nationwide assessments to identify areas with a significant potential for the development of location-constrained resources; and (2) provide technical assistance to regional planning authorities on request. Requires the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on electric transmission congestion. Provides that FERC's authority to approve transmission plans and to allocate costs incurred pursuant to the plans applies to all transmission providers, generators, and users, owners, and operators of the power system within the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the United States, except Alaska, Hawaii, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, unless they voluntarily elect to participate in cost allocation plans. Subtitle C: Federal Renewable Electricity Standard - (Sec. 131) Urges the government to continue to support of the use and expansion of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the production and use of energy, the reduction of GHG emissions, and the dependence on foreign oil. (Sec. 132) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to establish a standard that requires electric utilities to obtain an increasing percentage of their base quantity of electricity that they sell to consumers from renewable energy or energy efficiency (3% in 2011-2013, 6% in 2014-2016, 9% in 2017-2018, 12% in 2019-2020, and 15% in 2021-2039). Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a renewable energy credit trading program and an energy efficiency credit trading program, under which utilities will submit credits to comply with such standard; and (2) prescribe regulations to phase in renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements to an electric utility that becomes subject to his Act on or after January 1, 2013. Defines "renewable energy resource" to mean electric energy generated at a facility from solar, wind, geothermal energy, or ocean energy, biomass, landfill gas, qualified hydropower, marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy, incremental geothermal production; coal-mined methane; qualified waste-to-energy; or another renewable energy source based on innovative technology. Provides for the issuance, length, transfer, administration, tracking, and reporting of credits. Allows: (1) double credits for generation from facilities on Indian land; (2) triple credits for generation from small renewable distributed generators; and (3) triple credits for generation of energy from algae. Establishes compliance and enforcement provisions, including: (1) allowing a utility to meet renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements by submitting alternative compliance payments; (2) prohibiting energy efficiency credits to be used to meet more than 26.67% of the renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements; and (3) establishing civil penalties. Exempts from renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements a utility that: (1) sold less than four million megawatt hours of electric energy to electric consumers during the preceding year; or (2) is located in Hawaii. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to waive renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements if a utility cannot meet the requirements due to a hurricane, tornado, fire, flood, earthquake, ice storm, or other natural disaster or act beyond the reasonable control of the utility; (2) a utility to petition the Secretary to waive such requirements in order to limit the rate impact of the incremental cost of compliance of the electric utility to no more than 4% per retail customer in a year; and (3) a state public utility commission or electric utility to request a variance from such requirements on the basis of transmission constraints preventing delivery of service. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to delegate to a market-making entity the administration of a national renewable energy credit market and a national energy efficiency credit market to create a transparent national market for the sale or trade of such credits and to delegate to regional entities the tracking of dispatch of renewable generation; and (2) states to adopt or enforce any law respecting renewable energy or energy efficiency, or the regulation of electric utilities. Authorizes a governor to expend amounts in a state renewable energy escrow account solely for: (1) increasing the quantity of electric energy produced from a renewable energy source in the state, including nuclear and advanced coal technologies for carbon capture and sequestration; (2) promoting deployment and use of electric drive vehicles in the state; and (3) offsetting the costs of carrying out this Act paid by consumers in states through direct grants to electric consumers or energy efficiency investments. Requires the Secretary to: (1) facilitate coordination between the federal trading programs and state renewable energy and energy efficiency programs; and (2) promulgate regulations to ensure that an electric utility that is subject to this Act and to a state renewable energy standard receives renewable energy credits if the utility complies with the state standard by generating or purchasing renewable energy credits or other mechanisms for achieving the standard. Requires the Secretary, when petitioned by the governor of a state or the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), to allow up to 26.67% of the renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements associated with the sales of electricity of the utility in the state to be met by submitting federal energy efficiency credits. Provides for the issuance of energy efficiency credits by the Secretary for qualified electricity savings. Prohibits credits from being issued for electricity savings achieved as a result of compliance with a building, equipment, or appliance efficiency standard. Requires: (1) the Secretary to promulgate regulations regarding the measurement and verification of electricity savings; (2) the Secretary to make loans to electric utilities to reduce their costs of complying with federal renewable energy standards and minimize the impact such standards have on consumers' electricity rates; and (3) the increment of electricity output of a new combined heat and power system that is attributable to the higher efficiency of the combined system to be considered electricity savings. Requires the Secretary to make loans available to electric utilities to: (1) construct a renewable energy generation facility; and (2) install an energy efficiency or electricity demand reduction technology. Authorizes appropriations for such loans. Requires the Secretary, no later than January 15, 2017, and every five years thereafter, to review and make recommendations to Congress on the trading programs. Terminates the trading programs on December 31, 2039. (Sec. 133) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to redefine "biomass" to include specified types of nonhazardous organic materials. Requires the Secretary of Energy to study the impacts of biomass harvesting for energy production on: (1) landscape-level water quality, soil productivity, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity; and (2) conservation forest land. Subtitle D: Energy and Water Integration - (Sec. 141) Requires the Secretary to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences (Academy) to conduct an in-depth analysis of the impact of energy development and production on U.S. water resources, including a lifecycle assessment of the quantity of water withdrawn and consumed in the production of transportation fuels or electricity. (Sec. 142) Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on alternative technologies and related strategies to optimize water and energy efficiency in the production of electricity by each type of generation (coal, oil and natural gas, hydropower, thermal solar, and nuclear). (Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary of the Interior: (1) acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to evaluate the quantities of energy used in water storage and delivery operations in major reclamation projects; and (2) to operate, manage, and maintain the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Otero County, New Mexico, to carry out research, development, and demonstration activities to develop technologies and methods that promote brackish groundwater desalination as a viable method to increase water supply in a cost-effective manner, including the development of renewable energy technologies for integration with desalination technology. (Sec. 145) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to conduct an assessment of energy use in various sectors of the economy that are associated with the acquisition, treatment, or delivery of water. (Sec. 146) Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop and report to Congress on the Energy-Water Research and Development Roadmap document to define the future research, development, demonstration, and commercialization efforts that are required to address emerging water-related challenges to future, cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable energy generation and production. (Sec. 147) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a competitive grant program that provides grants to local governments to demonstrate the deployment of technologies that reduce the consumption of, or conserve, energy supplies through energy savings and water conservation activities in commercial, residential, and mixed-use development projects. (Sec. 148) Requires the Secretary to establish and carry out a program similar to, and consistent with, the national rural water and wastewater circuit rider program established under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) provide on-site technical assistance to rural drinking water and wastewater utilities (including utilities serving an Indian tribe); and (2) improve energy efficiency, identify and develop alternative and renewable energy supplies, and conserve water in the operation of rural drinking water and wastewater utilities. (Sec. 149) Requires the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive study to determine the interrelated nature of water and energy use (including energy consumption in water-related processes and the manner by which to reduce water-related energy consumption) to promote the efficient use of water and energy. Includes among required study components an assessment of industrial water use; options to reduce energy use by water treatment and delivery systems during peak electric demand periods; the uses for nonfreshwater sources of water supply in industrial, commercial, and residential applications; and access and estimate the quantity and type of energy consumed in the procurement, transport, and treatment of water supplies and wastewater that serve industrial, commercial, and residential uses. Subtitle E: Vehicle Deployment - (Sec. 151) Requires the Secretary to arrange for the Academy to: (1) conduct a comprehensive analysis of energy use within the light-duty vehicle transportation sector that includes an assessment of the extent to which the United States can employ technical options to reduce oil intensity by 80% by 2050 and reduce carbon dioxide emissions at a rate that is consistent with national goals; and (2) use and report to Congress on the analysis to study the technology options for alternative fuels that could reduce petroleum consumption and GHG emissions. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the study. (Sec. 152) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require the Secretary to implement a program to analyze, assess, and report to Congress on : (1) the number and distribution of recharging facilities that will be required for drivers of plug-in electric drive vehicles and neighborhood electric vehicles to reliably recharge those electric drive vehicles to meet the average needs of the drivers; (2) minimum technical standards for public recharging facilities necessary for widespread deployment; (3) the technical and infrastructure investments that electric utilities and electricity providers will be required to make to support widespread deployment of recharging infrastructure; (4) existing electric drive transportation technologies and the state of markets for the purchase of those technologies; (5) methods of removing market barriers for existing and emerging applications of electric drive transportation technologies; (6) the potential value to the electric grid of using the energy stored in on-board storage systems to improve the efficiency and reliability of the grid generation system; and (7) the implications of the introduction of plug-in electric drive vehicles and other types of electric transportation on the production of electricity from renewable resources. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a program to support the deployment and integration of plug-in electric drive vehicles in multiple regions of the United States through the provision of financial support to state and local governments and other entities to assist in the installation of recharging facilities for electric drive vehicles; and (2) a grant program to assist states and local governments in the installation of recharging infrastructure for plug-in electric drive vehicles. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to state and local governments for demonstration and commercial application of rechargeable infrastructure. (Sec. 153) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on recommendations for establishing and adopting consensus or industry standards for electric drive transportation. Authorizes appropriations for such report. (Sec. 154) Requires the Secretary to establish, as part of the Federal Energy Management Program, a pilot grant program for: (1) the incremental cost of precommercial plug-in electric drive vehicles for purchase or lease in an amount not to exceed $10,000 per vehicle purchased or $1,500 per year per vehicle leased; and (2) recharging infrastructure at federal facilities in conjunction with the vehicles. Requires the Secretary to issue guidelines for the program. (Sec. 155) Requires the Secretary to study and report on the end-of-useful life options for motor vehicle batteries, including batteries used in electric drive vehicles. Title II: Enhanced Energy Efficiency - Subtitle A: Manufacturing Energy Efficiency - (Sec. 201) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to Require the Secretary to provide funding for a revolving loan program that enables manufacturers to implement commercially available technologies or processes that significantly reduce systems energy intensity and improve U.S. industrial competitiveness. Requires lenders to ensure that non-federal funds are provided to match, on at least a dollar-for-dollar basis, the amount of the funds that are provided to carry out the loan program. Limits the cost-matched funds provided to a lender to $100 million per fiscal year. Provides for the repayment of loans. (Sec. 202) Requires the Secretary, as part of the research and development activities of the DOE's Industrial Technologies Program, to establish collaborative research and development partnerships with other programs within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, including the Building Technologies Program, the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and programs of the Office of Science to: (1) leverage the research and development expertise of such programs to promote early stage energy efficiency technology development; and (2) apply the knowledge and expertise of the Industrial Technologies Program to help achieve the program goals of the other programs. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on actions taken to carry out such partnerships within two years and biennially thereafter. (Sec. 203) Requires the Secretary to assess and report to Congress on commercially available, cost competitive energy efficiency technologies that are not widely implemented within the United States for the energy intensive industries of steel, aluminum, forest and paper products, food processing, metal casting, glass, chemicals, petroleum refining, cement, information and communication technologies, and other industries that use large quantities of energy, emit large quantities of GHGs, or use a rapidly increasing quantity of energy. (Sec. 204) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to include among partnership activities eligible for funding under the Future of Industry Program research to establish a road map process under which: (1) industry-specific studies are conducted to determine the intensity of energy use, GHG emissions, and waste and operating costs, by process and subprocess; (2) near-, mid-, and long-term targets of opportunity are established for synergistic improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and resilience; and (3) actionable plans are created to achieve road map goals. Requires the Secretary to: (1) make specified research on industry-specific road maps eligible for funding under the Future of Industry Program; (2) establish a Center of Excellence at up to 10 of the highest performing industrial research and assessment centers to coordinate with and advise other industrial research and assessment centers; (3) provide funding to establish additional industrial research and assessment centers at institutions of higher education that do not have such centers and for such centers' outreach activities; and (4) pay the federal share of 50% of the costs of carrying out associated internship programs under which students work with industries and manufacturers to implement the centers' recommendations. Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to expedite consideration of applications for loans under the Small Business Act that implement such centers' recommendations. Increases the appropriations authorized for FY2010-FY2012 for DOE's program for optimizing energy efficiency and economic competitiveness of energy-intensive industrial and commercial sectors. (Sec. 205) Amends EPCA to require the Secretary, as part of DOE's Industrial Technologies Program, to carry out: (1) a sustainable manufacturing initiative to conduct, on the request of a manufacturer, onsite technical assessments to identify opportunities for maximizing the energy efficiency of systems, preventing pollution and minimizing waste, reducing the use of water in manufacturing processes, and conserving natural resources; and (2) a joint industry-government partnership program to research and develop new sustainable manufacturing and industrial technologies and processes that maximize the energy efficiency of systems, reduce pollution, and conserve natural resources. (Sec. 206) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary, as part of the program to award cash prizes in recognition of achievements in science and technology, to carry out a program to pay the federal share of competitively awarding grants to state-industry partnerships to develop, demonstrate, and commercialize new technologies or processes for industries that significantly: (1) reduce energy use, energy intensive feedstock, pollution, GHG emissions, and industrial waste; and (2) improve domestic industrial cost competitiveness. Requires a state-industry partnership to agree to match the amount of federal funds that are provided to carry out the project. (Sec. 207) Requires the Secretary to: (1) arrange with the Academy to study the development of advanced manufacturing capabilities for various energy technologies; and (2) establish an advisory steering committee to provide recommendations on planning and implementation of DOE's Industrial Technologies Program. Requires the Academy to report to specified congressional committees on such study. Subtitle B: Improved Efficiency in Appliances and Equipment - (Sec. 221) Amends EPCA to authorize any person to petition the Secretary to prescribe or amend test procedures that are used to measure energy use by: (1) covered products under DOE's energy conservation program for consumer products; and (2) certain industrial equipment. Requires DOE to respond to petitions within 180 days and publish a rule on the standard within three years if a petition is granted. (Sec. 222) Modifies the Energy Star Program by requiring the Secretary and the EPA Administrator to update agreements that delineate DOE and EPA responsibilities. Expands the duties of the Secretary and the Administrator, to include reviewing product categories at least once every three years or when market share for a category reaches 35%, updating product criteria for categories, requiring qualified products to demonstrate compliance with criteria, and developing standardized building energy audit methods. Authorizes appropriations for the Program. Requires: (1) industry consensus test methods developed by DOE to be used for all solid-state lighting products; and (2) DOE to assume all responsibility for the implementation of an Energy Star program for solid-state lighting. (Sec. 224) Includes portable light fixtures as covered consumer products under the energy conservation program for consumer products other than automobiles. Establishes: (1) test procedures for LED fixtures and light engines; and (2) energy conservation standards for portable light fixtures and art work light fixtures manufactured on or after January 1, 2012. Requires the Secretary to review standards for portable light fixtures to determine if they are technologically feasible and economically justified. Excludes from federal preemption a regulation concerning portable light fixtures adopted by the California Energy Commission on or before January 1, 2014. (Sec. 225) Requires: (1) GU-24 base lamps to not be an incandescent lamp as defined by ANSI; and (2) adaptors to not adapt a GU-24 socket to any other line voltage socket. (Sec. 226) Requires the Secretary to establish energy conservation standards for certain reflector lamps. (Sec. 227) Establishes energy efficiency standards for warm air furnaces with an input rating of 225,000 Btu per hour or more and manufactured after January 1, 2011. (Sec. 228) Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 2010, to establish a program to provide rebates for expenditures made for the purchase and installation of certain new electric motors and to replace installed motors. Requires the Secretary to provide to rebate recipients amounts to assist in the payment for expenses relating to processing and motor core disposal costs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2010-FY2014. (Sec. 229) Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the degree of compliance with energy standards for appliances. (Sec. 230) Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) the costs and benefits of requiring high-quality, direct current electricity supply in certain buildings; and (2) the policy and role of the government in realizing such benefits. (Sec. 231) Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct an assessment of electric motors and the electric motor market in the United States; and (2) establish a program targeted at motor end-users and delivered in cooperation with interested parties to increase awareness of energy and cost-saving opportunities in commercial and industrial facilities using higher efficiency electric motors. (Sec. 232) Requires the Secretary and the EPA Administrator to carry out jointly and report to specified congressional committees on a study to determine the feasibility and advisability of adding to the Energy Star program the Energy Superstar tier to recognize the top performing products and buildings that are determined to be products that are cost-effective to consumers. Subtitle C: Building Efficiency - Part I: Building Codes - (Sec. 241) Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA) to: (1) require the Secretary to support updating national model building energy codes and standards at least every three years to achieve overall savings; (2) require states to certify to the Secretary that they have updated provisions of their building code regarding energy efficiency and are complying with such provisions; (3) require the Secretary to report on the status on the national model building energy codes and standards and the status of code adoption and compliance in the states; and (4) provide incentive funding to states to implement energy efficiency codes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to establish the Multifamily and Manufactured Housing Energy Efficiency Grant Program to provide grants to carry out energy efficiency programs to increase energy efficiency in multifamily buildings through grants for renovation and manufactured housing constructed before 1976 through rebates to assist owners in repairing such housing with housing that meets Energy Star criteria. (Sec. 243) Requires the Secretary to provide grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to: (1) identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance in buildings; (2) promote the application of emerging concepts and technologies in commercial and institutional buildings; (3) train engineers, architects, building scientists, building energy permitting and enforcement officials, and building technicians in energy-efficient design and operation; (4) assist institutions of higher education in training building technicians; (5) promote research and development for the use of alternative energy sources to supply heat and power for buildings, particularly energy-intensive buildings; and (6) coordinate with and assist state-accredited technical training centers, community colleges, and local offices of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and ensure services are provided to each U.S. region. Part II: Weatherization Assistance for Low-income Persons - (Sec. 251) Amends ECPA to extend and increase authorization for FY2011-FY2015 for weatherization assistance for low-income persons. Part III: State Energy Program - (Sec. 255) Amends EPCA to authorize appropriations to the Secretary for state energy conservation plans for FY2011-FY2015. Part IV: State Energy Efficiency Grant Program - (Sec. 262) Requires the Secretary to make grants to states to implement energy efficiency retrofit programs. Authorizes states to use grants from such program to provide: (1) grants to home owners for energy efficiency retrofits of homes; and (2) incentives for energy efficiency retrofits to owners of commercial buildings. (Sec. 266) Requires the Secretary to provide Home Energy Retrofit Finance Program grants to states for establishing or expanding a state revolving fund to support financing offered by qualified entities for energy efficiency measures and renewable energy improvements to existing homes and residential buildings. Part V: Federal Efficiency and Renewables - (Sec. 271) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the federal renewable purchase requirement, including requiring the President to ensure that the government consumes a specified amount of renewable energy of the total amount of energy (currently, electric energy) it consumes. Authorizes a contract entered into by a federal agency to acquire renewable energy to be made for no more than 30 years. (Sec. 272) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to set forth provisions concerning agencies issuing task or delivery orders under energy saving performance contracts (ESPCs). Considers the issuance of a task or delivery order for ESPC services to satisfy the competition requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Authorizes the Secretary to issue guidance to agencies issuing such orders. (Sec. 273) Authorizes agencies, in carrying out such contracts, to use private financing of energy saving measures. (Sec. 274) Includes within the meaning of "energy savings," for purposes of an ESPC, the installation of renewable energy systems. (Sec. 275) Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a strategic plan to achieve an improvement in the overall energy productivity of the United States of at least 2.5% per year by 2012 and maintain that annual rate of improvement each year through 2030; (2) update such plan biennially; and (3) report to Congress on such plan and updates. (Sec. 276) Makes not-for-profit hospitals and inpatient health care facilities eligible for energy sustainability and efficiency grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY2010-FY2015. (Sec. 277) Requires each agency to create an implementation strategy for the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy efficient and energy-reducing information and communication technologies and practices. Sets forth reporting requirements. Part VI: Energy Efficiency Information on Homes and Buildings - (Sec. 281) Requires the EPA Administrator to establish a voluntary energy performance information program with broad applicability to buildings nationwide to: (1) provide information on comparative energy performance; and (2) increase public awareness of the importance of building efficiency and energy performance through public education. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on: (1) all principal building types for which statistically significant energy performance data exists to serve as the basis for building energy performance information; and (2) building types for which additional data are required. Requires the Secretary to support improvements to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey or other commercial buildings energy performance databases to: (1) characterize the achieved performance of existing buildings for the building types covered by the Survey; and (2) cover additional building types to enable the development of measurement protocols for those building types that cover at least 85% of all major commercial building energy use. Requires the Secretary to establish a business and consumer education program to increase awareness of the importance of building energy efficiency and the availability of building energy performance information. Requires the Administrator to conduct demonstration projects for different building types to evaluate the efficiency of the model certificate specifications, measurements, and other alternatives proposed by state or local agencies, utilities, or other implementing organizations. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the request of a state or local government, to provide grants for initial program administration of a voluntary model building energy information performance program. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the progress of such program. Sets forth program requirements for federal, state, and local buildings. Authorizes the Administrator to use information developed under the program to establish a voluntary Energy Star program that recognizes high efficiency retrofits of existing commercial and residential buildings. (Sec. 282) Requires the Secretary to promulgate uniform rules to document the energy savings and avoided GHG emissions of energy efficiency programs and projects that: (1) receive funding from governments or public utilities; (2) require specific levels of energy reductions; and (3) are eligible for allowances or allowance proceeds based on energy savings and GHG emissions reductions under climate change regulations. Part VII: Residential High Performance Zero-Net Energy Buildings Initiative - (Sec. 291) Requires the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to: (1) establish and carry out the Residential High-Performance Zero-Net-Energy Building Initiative to reduce the quantity of energy consumed and increase the quantity of renewable energy generated in residential buildings and promote the development of zero-net-energy buildings; and (2) appoint a Director of Residential High-Performance Zero-Net-Energy Buildings to carry out the Initiative. Establishes as the Initiative's goals to: (1) develop and disseminate technologies, practices, and policies for the development and establishment of zero-net-energy buildings; and (2) promote technologies and strategies that will enable the design and construction of zero-net-energy buildings by 2015 and any new residential building constructed on or after 2020 to be a cost-effective zero-net-energy building. Subtitle D: Electric Grid - (Sec. 295) States that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the national electric system efficiency goal is to optimize and make more efficient the planning and operation of national and local electricity systems in a manner that the system load factor of the systems will be improved by 1.5% per year during each of 2010 through 2030; and (2) such goal can be met or exceeded by lessening the difference between the periods of lowest and highest electricity demand, with particular focus on reducing the frequency and severity of peak demand periods, using smart grid and demand response technologies, practices, and activities. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop an action plan to achieve or exceed such goals; (2) update the plan every three years; (3) report to Congress on such plan; and (4) establish a public website to provide data demonstrating progress by states and load-serving entities in meeting the national electric system efficiency goal. (Sec. 296) Amends PURPA to require FERC to: (1) establish a standard by which each electric utility shall make available, upon request, interconnection service to any electric consumer that it serves with respect to any facility that generates up to 15 kilowatts of electric energy on the premises of the electric consumer; (2) report to Congress within three years of this Act's enactment on whether the standard should be amended to apply to facilities that generate up to 50 kilowatts and amend the standard if appropriate; and (3) establish a model standard for the interconnection of small power production facilities with a capacity greater than 15 kilowatts, but no greater than 20 megawatts. Title III: Improved Energy Security - Subtitle A: Cyber Security of the Electric Transmission Grid - (Sec. 301) Amends the Federal Power Act to require FERC to issue rules or orders to protect critical electric infrastructure from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Makes such rules or orders expire when a standard is developed and approved to address the vulnerability. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, if immediate action is necessary to protect critical electric infrastructure from a cybersecurity threat, to require persons to take action to avert or mitigate such threat. Requires FERC to establish a mechanism that permits public utilities to recover prudently incurred costs required to implement immediate actions ordered by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare a comprehensive plan that identifies the emergency measures or actions that will be taken to protect the reliability of the electric power supply of the national defense facilities located in Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam in the event of an imminent cybersecurity threat. Subtitle B: Nuclear Energy - (Sec. 311) Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to establish the National Commission on Nuclear Waste to: (1) conduct a comprehensive study of alternative means of safely managing or disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activity and atomic energy defense activity; (2) recommend to Congress legislative or other action to manage or dispose of such fuel and waste successfully and safely; (3) review DOE's efforts to implement prior repository programs; (4) review programs to reprocess commercial spent nuclear fuel; (5) recommend measures to provide economic compensation and incentives to state or local governments and Indian tribes that agree to host repositories, reprocessing facilities, or regional storage facilities; (6) study alternative approaches to managing the construction and operation of civilian nuclear waste facilities; and (7) study means of financing nuclear waste management and disposal activities. Terminates the Commission 60 days after the date on which the final report is submitted. (Sec. 312) Expresses the sense of Congress that the government should reaffirm the policy to: (1) support the use and expansion of nuclear energy technology for the production of electricity and other industrial applications and the reduction of GHG emissions; and (2) fulfill the government's obligation with respect to spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. (Sec. 313) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to amend the advanced fuel recycling technology research, development, and demonstration program by directing the Secretary of Energy to: (1) complete the development and testing of a complete and integrated process flowsheet for all steps involved in an advanced fuel recycling process; (2) characterize the waste streams resulting from such steps; (3) develop waste treatment processes and designs for disposal facilities for such waste streams; (4) develop a generic environmental impact statement for the technologies developed under such program; and (5) conduct design and engineering work sufficient to develop firm cost estimates with respect to the development of advanced fuel recycling processes. Gives the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing and related regulatory authority under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 over facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process. Requires: (1) the NRC to establish standards for protection against radiation resulting from activities at facilities that use advanced fuel recycling process; and (2) the EPA Administrator to establish generally applicable environmental standards for the protection of the public and the environment from radioactive material released from facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process. Requires the Secretary to direct the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee and the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to evaluate and report on the readiness of the advanced fuel recycling technology research, development, and demonstration program for detailed design, engineering, licensing, and deployment of advanced fuel recycling processes. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress the reports of the Committee and Board. Subtitle C: Improving United States Strategic Reserves - (Sec. 321) Amends EPCA to require that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) contain at least 30 million barrels of refined petroleum products. Directs the Secretary to submit to the President and, if the President approves, to Congress, a plan for inclusion of such products in the SPR. Prohibits drawdown and sale of SPR petroleum products unless the Secretary determines that: (1) the drawdown and sale are required by a severe energy market supply interruption or U.S. obligations under the international energy program; or (2) a sale of refined petroleum products will mitigate the impacts of weather-related or other natural events that have resulted in a severe energy market disruption. Subtitle D: Federal Oil and Gas Development - Part I: Oil and Gas Leasing - (Sec. 331) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations and for oil and gas inspection and enforcement on onshore federal land under the jurisdiction of the Pilot Project Offices for FY2016-FY2020. (Sec. 332) Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to authorize land under an oil and gas lease issued pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act or the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands from which oil and gas production is occurring under an approved permit to be available for leasing: (1) if the geothermal energy will be produced from a well producing or capable of producing oil and gas and the public interest will be served by the issuance of the lease; and (2) in order to provide for the coproduction of geothermal energy with oil and gas. Part II: Outer Continental Shelf - (Sec. 341) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct and report to Congress and the public on a seismic inventory of oil and gas and prepare a summary of information for waters of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Atlantic Region, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Alaska Region. (Sec. 342) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a regional joint OCS lease and permitting processing office for the Alaska outer Continental Shelf region. (Sec. 343) Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from offering, until June 30, 2022, any oil and gas exploration lease in the Eastern Planning Area of the Gulf of Mexico that is within 45 miles of the coastline of Florida. (The current leasing moratorium prohibits leasing activities within 125 miles of such coastline.) Authorizes the Secretary to offer for lease any area in the Destin Dome Area or the Pensacola Area. Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to: (1) instruct the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to recommend to the President whether certain areas of the OCS should remain under energy exploration restrictions; and (2) authorize the DOD Secretary to offer for leasing any areas made available for leasing under this Act. (Sec. 344) Repeals incentives for natural gas production from deep wells in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and royalty relief for deep water production. Part III: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 351) Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to require any Director of the Minerals Management Service to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Sec. 353) Amends the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act to revise provisions concerning loan guarantees for the Alaska natural gas pipeline, including allowing certificate holders to request the Secretary of Energy to extend the period to issue guarantee instruments. (Sec. 354) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits for: (1) a high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline in non-wilderness areas within the Denali National Park and within, along, or near the segment of the George Parks Highway that runs through the park; and (2) any distribution and transmission pipelines and appurtenances to provide natural gas supply to the Park. (Sec. 355) Amends the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act to prohibit, subject to exemption, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system from being considered to be a district, site, building, structure, or object for purposes of the National Historic Preservation Act. (Sec. 356) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to revise the lifecycle GHG emission-related restrictions on procurement of alternative or synthetic fuels to state contract conditions that would allow such procurement. (Sec. 357) Establishes in the Department of the Interior a grant program for states, State Geologic Surveys, or Regional Consortiums to build, maintain, and operate centers to store geologic samples collected as a result of oil and gas exploration, mineral exploration, and geotechnical studies and research. Subtitle E: Public Lands Renewable Energy Deployment - (Sec. 361) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of the Interior, as party of the pilot project to improve federal permit coordination, to designate Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field offices in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming to serve as Renewable Energy Permit Coordination Offices. (Sec. 362) Authorizes funding for implementing the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970. (Sec. 363) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) complete a programmatic environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act to analyze the potential impacts of a program to develop solar energy on land administered by the BLM and any necessary amendments to land use plans for the land; and (2) amend land use plans as appropriate to provide for the development of renewable energy. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) complete a programmatic environmental impact statement to analyze the potential impacts of a program to develop solar and wind energy on National Forest System land and any necessary amendments to land use plans for the land; and (2) amend land use plans as appropriate to provide for the development of renewable energy. (Sec. 364) Requires the Secretary of the Interior arrange with the Academy to study the siting, development, and management of projects for the production of wind and solar energy on: (1) land available for energy development that is administered by BLM; and (2) National Forest System land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture that is available for energy development. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress on the study. (Sec. 365) Requires the Secretary of Energy, in conjunction with the EPA Administrator: (1) in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to identify opportunities to prioritize renewable energy development on brownfield sites; (2) provide to state and local governments, project developers, and stakeholders publicly available resources identifying potential brownfield sites for renewable energy; and (3) provide technical assistance to state and local officials, project developers, and stakeholders to expedite renewable energy production from brownfield sites identified. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to: (1) report to Congress on proposals to encourage renewable energy production on such sites and data on existing and potential job creation from, environmental benefits of, and energy production from renewable energy on brownfield sites; and (2) conduct stakeholder forums to assist with renewable energy project siting on brownfield sites. (Sec. 366) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish a wind and solar leasing pilot program; (2) establish a leasing program for wind or solar energy if the program is in the public interest and provides an effective means of developing wind or solar energy on covered land; (3) provide for a reasonable transition from the use of rights-of-way to leases for development of wind or solar energy; (4) establish royalties, fees, rentals, bonuses, or other payments to ensure a fair return to the United States for any lease issued; (5) establish terms and conditions for the duration, issuance, transfer, renewal, suspension, and cancellation of a lease; and (6) provide for the payment of 5% of the revenues received by the government as a result of leasing or the issuance of rights-of-ways for wind or solar development under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to the state within which the leased land or right-of-way are located. Directs the Secretary to require the holder of a lease to: (1) furnish a surety bond or other form of security; (2) provide for the reclamation and restoration of the area covered by the lease; and (3) comply with requirements to protect the interest of the public and the United States. Sets forth provisions concerning indemnification agreements. Prohibits the Secretary from indemnifying the recipient of a cooperative agreement from liability arising out of conduct that is grossly negligent or that constitutes intentional misconduct. Requires the Secretary to collect a fee for indemnification agreements in an amount equal to the net present value of payments made by the United States to cover liability under the indemnification agreement. Subtitle F: Carbon Capture - (Sec. 371) Requires the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to demonstrate the commercial application of integrated systems for the capture, injection, monitoring, and long-term geological storage of carbon dioxide from industrial sources. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements to provide financial and technical assistance to up to 10 demonstration projects. Sets forth requirements for demonstration projects relating to site safety, environmental protection and remediation, and site closure. (Sec. 372) Requires the Secretary to provide grants for training of state employees involved in permitting and management of carbon capture, transportation, and storage projects. Subtitle G: Island Energy - (Sec. 381) Requires the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to: (1) address the energy needs of affiliated islands (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands); (2) provide assistance to each utility and government of each affiliated island to develop and implement an energy Action Plan to reduce the reliance of each island on imported fossil fuels through increased efficiency and use of indigenous clean-energy resources; and (3) report to Congress on the progress of each affiliated island in implementing the Plan and reducing reliance on fossil fuel. Title IV: Energy Innovation and Workforce Development - Subtitle A: Funding - (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY2010-FY2013 for: (1) research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities for energy efficiency and conservation, distributed energy and electric energy system activities, renewable energy, nuclear energy, and fossil energy; and (2) the EPA Office of Science's research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities. Subtitle B: Grand Energy Challenges Research Initiative - (Sec. 411) Requires the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and the Under Secretary for Energy, to establish a Grand Energy Challenges Research Initiative to accelerate the solutions to Grand Energy Challenges through the establishment of large-scale, multidisciplinary activities that blend research in basic, applied, and engineering sciences, and technology development. Requires the Under Secretaries to initiate such activities that bring together the skills and talents of multiple investigators to enable high-risk, cross-cutting research of a scope and complexity that would not be practicable with individual investigators. Subtitle C: Improvements to Existing Energy Research and Development Programs - (Sec. 421) Amends the America COMPETES Act to require the Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to provide to Congress a road map describing the strategic vision that ARPA-E will use to guide the choices of ARPA-E for future technology investments by October 1, 2012 (currently, October 1, 2011). (Sec. 422) Amends the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 to require the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to conduct a research program on manufacturing batteries and battery systems to support electric drive vehicles by improving processes, or developing new manufacturing processes, to enable higher quality and less expensive batteries. Authorizes appropriations for the domestic vehicle energy storage manufacturing research program for FY2009-FY2018. (Sec. 423) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to authorize appropriations for the program to determine ways in which the weight of motor vehicles could be reduced to improve fuel efficiency without compromising passenger safety in FY2010-FY2013. (Sec. 424) Amends the Methane Hydrate Research and Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary, in carrying out the program of methane hydrate research and development, to award grants to, or enter into contracts or agreements with, institutions that: (1) conduct research to identify, explore, assess, and develop methane hydrate as a commercially viable source of energy and to assess and mitigate the environmental impact of hydrate degassing; (2) identify and characterize methane hydrate resources using remote sensing and seismic data; (3) develop technologies required for efficient and environmentally sound development of methane hydrate resources; (4) develop technologies to reduce the risks of drilling through methane hydrates; (5) conduct exploratory drilling, well testing, and production testing operations on gas hydrates; and (6) expand education and training programs in methane hydrate resource research and resource development through fellowships or other means for graduate education and training. Requires the Secretary to conduct a long-term environmental monitoring program to study the effects of production from methane hydrate reservoirs. Authorizes funding for FY2011-FY2015. (Sec. 425) Authorizes the Secretary to support programs of research, development, commercial application, and conservation to expand the domestic production of low-Btu gas (a fuel gas with a heating value of less than 250 Btu per cubic foot measured as the higher heating value resulting from the inclusion of noncombustible gases) and helium resources. Requires the Secretary to support: (1) a civilian research program to develop advanced membrane technology that is used in the separation of gases from applications; (2) a research program to develop technologies for separating, gathering, and processing helium in low concentrations that occurs naturally in geologic reservoirs or formations; and (3) working through DOE's Industrial Technologies Program, a research program to develop technologies for recycling, reprocessing, and reusing helium and to develop industrial gathering technologies to capture helium from other chemical processing. (Sec. 426) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to authorize the Secretary to establish an Office of Arctic Energy to: (1) promote research, development, and deployment of electric power technology that is cost-effective and especially well suited to meet the needs of rural and remote regions of the United States, especially regions in which permafrost is present or located nearby; (2) promote research, development, and deployment in such regions of enhanced oil recovery technology, gas-to-liquids technology and liquefied natural gas, small hydroelectric facilities, river turbines, and tidal power, and natural gas hydrates, coal bed methane, and shallow bed natural gas; and (3) promote research, development, and deployment of alternative energy research in regions of cold weather. (Sec. 427) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to name the program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of technologies for ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production as the Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Program. Terminates the authority provided under such program on September 30, 2017 (currently, September 30, 2014). Increases funding for such program. Subtitle D: Energy Workforce Development - (Sec. 431) Amends the Department of Energy Science Education Enhancement Act to: (1) require the Director of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Education to disseminate best practices for career pathway programs at public secondary schools that prepare students for careers in the energy technology industry and provide sufficient training to allow academy graduates to secure entry-level employment or apprenticeship in the energy technology industry; and (2) the Secretary, acting through the Director, to award renewable five-year grants to state educational agencies on a competitive basis to provide assistance to local educational agencies for the costs of establishing or expanding energy career academies. (Sec. 433) Amends the Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act to require the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to expand and enhance the educational capabilities of community colleges to prepare students for careers in trades relevant to the energy utility industry; and (2) award competitive grants to community colleges that establish or expand academic degree programs in the energy utility trades, including technicians in the nuclear utilities industry. (Sec. 434) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary to establish a program to communicate information on workforce trends in the energy technology industries to: (1) guidance counselors at secondary schools; (2) career development offices at institutions of higher education; and (3) principals and district superintendents. Requires the Secretary to create and maintain a website and interface with Federal Trio programs and GEAR UP programs to provide students with information on careers in energy technology industries. (Sec. 435) Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to Congress on energy workforce training programs funded by federal agencies. (Sec. 439) Requires the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, to: (1) carry out a joint sustainable energy workforce training and education program; and (2) award grants to community colleges to provide workforce training and education in such industries and practices as alternative energy, energy efficiency construction, sustainable energy technologies, water and energy conservation, recycling and waste reduction, sustainable agriculture and farming, and nuclear energy technology. Subtitle E: Strengthening Education and Training in the Subsurface Geosciences and Engineering for Energy Development - (Sec. 452) States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) maintain and expand the human capital needed to preserve and foster the security of economically viable clean energy, groundwater, and mineral resources of the United States through financial assistance for science and technology programs that educate, train, and retrain the personnel needed for U.S. energy, groundwater, and mineral resources security; and (2) provide research funds to institutions of higher education to assist recognized programs in subsurface geosciences and engineering education and research. (Sec. 454) Requires the Secretary to provide funds to institutions of higher education with recognized programs to provide merit-based scholarships for undergraduate geosicence or engineering education with general subsurface applications and graduate fellowships in the applied geosciences and subsurface engineering. (Sec. 455) Requires the Secretary to support programs in subsurface geosciences and engineering that: (1) are focused on technology or skill development in energy, groundwater science or hydrogeology, and mineral production, and related maintenance, operational safety, or energy infrastructure protection and security; (2) prepare students for advanced or supervisory roles in the geothermal, petroleum, mining, geological carbon storage, groundwater, or mineral mining industries; (3) grant an associate's degree, a certificate, or a baccalaureate degree; and (4) prepare students for further higher education in the recognized programs. (Sec. 457) Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Geosciences and Geoengineering Education to advise the Secretary in education and training in the subsurface geosciences and engineering. (Sec. 460) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the Academy to study of the availability of skilled workers to meet energy and mineral security requirements. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on such study. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 472) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory within the meaning of "National Laboratory." (Sec. 474) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to include within the program to expand marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy production programs to: (1) apply advanced systems engineering and system integration methods to identify critical interfaces and develop open standards for marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; (2) transfer the resulting intellectual property to industry stakeholders as public information through published interface definitions, standards, and demonstration projects; and (3) develop incentives for industry to comply with the standards. Requires the Secretary to establish a marine-based energy device verification program to: (1) provide a bridge from the marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy capture device design and development efforts underway across the industry to commercial deployment of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy devices; and (2) fund, facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate marine hydrokinetic renewable energy projects. Requires the Secretary to establish a program to: (1) advance the development of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; (2) help fund the costs of evaluating the environmental effects of such renewables before and during the deployment of demonstration projects; (3) help enable entities to collect the types of environmental data that are required when working in a public resource and monitor the impacts of demonstration projects and make the resulting information available for dissemination; and (4) help fund the cost of advancing such technologies in ocean and riverine environments from demonstration projects to development and deployment. Title V: Energy Markets - (Sec. 501) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the EIA Administrator to develop, in cooperation with the Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC), information identifying all oil inventories and other physical oil assets that are owned by the 50 largest traders of oil contracts. Requires the Administrator to collect information quantifying the commercial storage capacity for oil and natural gas in the United States and update such information annually. Amends the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 to establish within the EIA a Financial Market Analysis Office, whose director will report to the EIA Administrator on analysis of financial aspects of energy markets. (Sec. 502) Establishes a Working Group on Energy Markets to: (1) investigate the effect of increased financial investment in energy commodities on energy prices and U.S. energy security; (2) recommend to the President and Congress laws that may be needed to prevent excessive speculation in energy commodity markets in order to prevent or minimize the adverse impact of excessive speculation on energy prices on consumers and the U.S. economy; and (3) review energy security implications of developments in international energy markets. Requires the Working Group to conduct a study and report to Congress on an examination of: (1) price formation of crude oil and refined petroleum products; (2) relevant international regulatory regimes; and (3) the degree to which changes in energy market transparency, liquidity, and structure have influenced or driven abuse, manipulation, excessive speculation, or inefficient price formation. (Sec. 504) Requires the Secretary of Energy to expand the Tariff Analysis Project: (1) to ensure that the project's online database can be periodically updated and expanded; and (2) by redesigning the project's Web interface to allow individuals and institutions other than the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to enter tariff data. Requires the Secretary and FERC to coordinate to develop a website to make available to the public metadata formats and all data converted to those formats. (Sec. 505) Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize FERC in an emergency to order the temporary suspension or modification of any rate, term, or condition of service to: (1) ensure reliability of service to electric consumers; or (2) protect electric consumers from potential abuse of market power or market manipulation in wholesale electric markets. Provides for the review and extension of such orders. Authorizes FERC to order an entity to cease and desist from manipulating any market for the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce in violation of a such Act. (Sec. 507) Amends the Natural Gas Act to authorize FERC to order an entity to cease and desist from manipulating the market for the purchase or sale of natural gas or transportation services in violation of such Act. Authorizes FERC to enter into a temporary order requiring a respondent to: (1) cease and desist from a violation of the prohibition on market manipulation that is likely to result in significant dissipation or conversion of assets, significant harm to natural gas consumers, or substantial harm to the public interest; and (2) take actions pending completion of the proceedings to prevent the violation, dissipation or conversion of assets, or such harm. Title VI: Policy Studies and Reports - (Sec. 601) Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to complete and report to Congress on: (1) a comprehensive national helium gas assessment that identifies and quantifies the quantity of helium in each reservoir; and (2) a comprehensive national potash assessment that identifies and quantifies known potash deposits and provides a quantitative assessment of the location and size of undiscovered deposits. (Sec. 603) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the President to transmit to Congress the National Energy Policy Plan (proposed plan) by February 1, 2010, and quadrennially thereafter (currently by April 1, 1979, and biennially thereafter). Requires such proposed plan to analyze the government's policies that encourage: (1) energy production and energy efficiency in the United States; (2) the reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of GHGs in the United States; and (3) the reduction of air pollutants in the environment. Requires the President, acting through the Secretary of Energy, to arrange with the Academy to prepare, review, and submit to Congress reports and analyses that may contribute to the development of the proposed plan. (Sec. 604) Requires the Secretary of Energy, working with the interagency task force established by this Act, to prepare and report to Congress on an interagency report on climate change and energy policy in China and India. (Sec. 605) Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) the risk of carbon leakage and changes in U.S. industrial output and investment caused by a potential cap-and-trade program (an economy-wide program enacted by Congress under which GHG emission allowances are distributed or auctioned to control those emissions under the Clean Air Act), in the absence of commensurate GHG emission regulations in other countries; (2) the impact of potential measures to prevent carbon leakage resulting from a cap-and-trade program; and (3) foreign fuel subsidies. (Sec. 607) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary to include as part of the annual report on the assessment of renewable energy resources consideration of: (1) the quantity of biomass needed for thermal applications, biofuels, and biomass-based electricity; (2) the highest efficiency energy use of biomass resources; and (3) the requirements and costs associated with deployment of biomass energy resources. Requires the report to also contain estimates of the market penetration for each renewable energy resource that could be accomplished by January 1, 2030. (Sec. 608) Requires the Secretary to complete an efficiency review to quantify the efficiencies of, and annual carbon dioxide and other emissions from, electric generation facilities in the United States. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to Congress that: (1) identifies technologies, equipment, and processes that are adequately demonstrated to be commercially deployed and could increase the efficiency of the electric generation facilities reviewed; (2) identifies the obstacles to electric generation facilities undertaking the installation or implementation of such technologies, equipment, or processes; (3) identifies actions that could reduce or eliminate such obstacles; (4) calculates the effect on total GHG and other emissions from electric generation facilities that would result from installation or implementation of such technologies, equipment, and processes; and (5) calculates the effect on GHG and other emissions per megawatt-hour from electric generation facilities that would result from installation or implementation of such technologies, equipment, and processes. (Sec. 609) Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out a research and demonstration program to evaluate the emissions from the use of alternative transportation fuels; (2) evaluate the effect of using alternative transportation fuels on land and air engine exhaust emissions; (3) submit a report to Congress on the effect on air quality and public health of using alternative fuels in the transportation sector; (4) issue any guidance or technical support documents necessary to facilitate the effective use of alternative transportation fuels and blends; (5) engage research centers for alternative fuels in the evaluation and preparation of such report; and (6) report to Congress an interim and final report on actions taken to carry out such program. (Sec. 610) States that it is U.S. policy to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Requires an interagency task force established by this Act to report to Congress on: (1) options for agency action that would save from the baseline established by the reference case contained in the EIA report entitled "Annual Energy Outlook 2009" specified volumes of oil during each of 2016, 2026, and 2030; (2) an analysis of the expected oil savings from the baseline to be accomplished by increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy and the Clean Air Act's renewable fuel standard; and (3) whether such options when taken together with such expected oil savings will achieve the reduction of volumes specified for 2016, 2026, and 2030. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report that estimates the quantity of oil actually saved by the oil saving measures.

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sec amends federal power act state policy national interstate transmission system guided goal maximizing net benefits electricity system requires federal_energy_regulatory_commission ferc coordinate regional planning ensure regional plans integrated interconnection wide transmission plan respect high priority national transmission projects issue rule national electricity grid planning principles authorizes public utilities transmitting utilities independent system operators regional entities multistate organizations entities develop regional plan relating high priority national transmission projects consistent ferc planning principles requires public transmitting utility participate regional plans develop plan relating high priority national transmission project planned utility system applies planning principles requirements transmission owner transmission entity portion eastern western sets forth provisions concerning siting high priority national transmission projects authorizing operation construction acquisition modification projects coordinating authorization site transmission facility federal land requires ferc encourage submission single interconnection wide plan high priority national transmission projects evaluate high priority national transmission projects constructed accordance interconnection wide transmission grid plan high priority national transmission projects western areas recommend congress action authority needed ensure development high priority national transmission projects transmission projects access regional offshore renewable energy generation requires secretary energy submit congress recommendations future action authority need ensure development demand response energy storage distributed generation energy efficiency states policy long term transmission rights duration sufficient support generation investment shall available appropriate terms conditions load serving entities long term power supply arrangements new generation facilities renewable energy defines renewable energy mean electric energy generated solar energy wind energy marine hydrokinetic renewable energy geothermal energy hydropower biomass landfill gas requires secretary energy conduct nationwide assessments identify areas significant potential development location resources provide technical assistance regional planning authorities request requires secretary energy study report congress electric transmission congestion provides ferc authority approve transmission plans allocate costs incurred pursuant plans applies transmission providers generators users owners operators power system eastern western united_states alaska hawaii voluntarily elect participate cost allocation plans subtitle federal renewable electricity standard sec urges government continue support use expansion renewable energy energy efficiency production use energy reduction ghg emissions dependence foreign oil sec amends public utility regulatory policies act purpa establish standard requires electric utilities obtain increasing percentage base quantity electricity sell consumers renewable energy energy efficiency requires secretary energy establish renewable energy credit trading program energy efficiency credit trading program utilities submit credits comply standard prescribe regulations phase renewable energy energy efficiency requirements electric utility subject act january defines renewable energy resource mean electric energy generated facility solar wind geothermal energy ocean energy biomass landfill gas qualified hydropower marine hydrokinetic renewable energy incremental geothermal production coal mined methane qualified waste energy renewable energy source based innovative technology provides issuance length transfer administration tracking reporting credits allows double credits generation facilities indian land triple credits generation small renewable distributed generators triple credits generation energy algae establishes compliance enforcement provisions including allowing utility meet renewable energy energy efficiency requirements submitting alternative compliance payments prohibiting energy efficiency credits meet renewable energy energy efficiency requirements establishing civil penalties exempts renewable energy energy efficiency requirements utility sold million megawatt hours electric energy electric consumers preceding year located hawaii authorizes secretary waive renewable energy energy efficiency requirements utility meet requirements hurricane tornado fire flood earthquake ice storm natural disaster act reasonable control utility utility petition secretary waive requirements order limit rate impact incremental cost compliance electric utility retail customer year state public utility commission electric utility request variance requirements basis transmission constraints preventing delivery service authorizes secretary delegate market making entity administration national renewable energy credit market national energy efficiency credit market create transparent national market sale trade credits delegate regional entities tracking dispatch renewable generation states adopt enforce law respecting renewable energy energy efficiency regulation electric utilities authorizes governor expend amounts state renewable energy escrow account solely increasing quantity electric energy produced renewable energy source state including nuclear advanced coal technologies carbon capture sequestration promoting deployment use electric drive vehicles state offsetting costs carrying act paid consumers states direct grants electric consumers energy efficiency investments requires secretary facilitate coordination federal trading programs state renewable energy energy efficiency programs promulgate regulations ensure electric utility subject act state renewable energy standard receives renewable energy credits utility complies state standard generating purchasing renewable energy credits mechanisms achieving standard requires secretary petitioned governor state board_of_directors tennessee_valley_authority tva allow renewable energy energy efficiency requirements associated sales electricity utility state met submitting federal energy efficiency credits provides issuance energy efficiency credits secretary qualified electricity savings prohibits credits issued electricity savings achieved result compliance building equipment appliance efficiency standard requires secretary promulgate regulations measurement verification electricity savings secretary loans electric utilities reduce costs complying federal renewable energy standards minimize impact standards consumers electricity rates increment electricity output new combined heat power system attributable higher efficiency combined system considered electricity savings requires secretary loans available electric utilities construct renewable energy generation facility install energy efficiency electricity demand reduction technology authorizes appropriations loans requires secretary later january years review recommendations congress trading programs terminates trading programs december sec amends energy policy act redefine biomass include specified types organic materials requires secretary energy study impacts biomass harvesting energy production landscape level water quality soil productivity wildlife habitat biodiversity conservation forest land subtitle energy water integration sec requires secretary arrange conduct depth analysis impact energy development production water resources including lifecycle assessment quantity water withdrawn consumed production transportation fuels electricity sec requires secretary study report congress alternative technologies related strategies optimize water energy efficiency production electricity type generation coal oil natural gas hydropower thermal solar nuclear sec directs secretary interior acting commissioner reclamation evaluate quantities energy water storage delivery operations major reclamation projects operate manage maintain new_mexico carry research development demonstration activities develop technologies methods promote brackish groundwater desalination viable method increase water supply cost effective manner including development renewable energy technologies integration desalination technology sec amends department_of_energy_organization_act require administrator energy_information_administration eia conduct assessment energy use sectors economy associated acquisition treatment delivery water sec requires secretary energy develop report congress document define future research development demonstration commercialization efforts required address emerging water related challenges future cost effective reliable sustainable energy generation production sec authorizes secretary carry competitive grant program provides grants local governments demonstrate deployment technologies reduce consumption conserve energy supplies energy savings water conservation activities commercial residential mixed use development projects sec requires secretary establish carry program similar consistent national rural water wastewater circuit rider program established consolidated_farm rural development act provide site technical assistance rural drinking water wastewater utilities including utilities serving indian tribe improve energy efficiency identify develop alternative renewable energy supplies conserve water operation rural drinking water wastewater utilities sec requires secretary conduct comprehensive study determine nature water energy use including energy consumption water related processes manner reduce water related energy consumption promote efficient use water energy includes required study components assessment industrial water use options reduce energy use water treatment delivery systems peak electric demand periods uses sources water supply industrial commercial residential applications access estimate quantity type energy consumed procurement transport treatment water supplies wastewater serve industrial commercial residential uses subtitle vehicle deployment sec requires secretary arrange academy conduct comprehensive analysis energy use light duty vehicle transportation sector includes assessment extent united_states employ technical options reduce oil intensity reduce carbon dioxide emissions rate consistent national goals use report congress analysis study technology options alternative fuels reduce petroleum consumption ghg emissions requires secretary report congress study sec amends energy independence security act require secretary implement program analyze assess report congress number distribution recharging facilities required drivers plug electric drive vehicles neighborhood electric vehicles reliably recharge electric drive vehicles meet average needs drivers minimum technical standards public recharging facilities necessary widespread deployment technical infrastructure investments electric utilities electricity providers required support widespread deployment recharging infrastructure existing electric drive transportation technologies state markets purchase technologies methods removing market barriers existing emerging applications electric drive transportation technologies potential value electric grid energy stored board storage systems improve efficiency reliability grid generation system implications introduction plug electric drive vehicles types electric transportation production electricity renewable resources requires secretary establish program support deployment integration plug electric drive vehicles multiple regions united_states provision financial support state local governments entities assist installation recharging facilities electric drive vehicles grant program assist states local governments installation recharging infrastructure plug electric drive vehicles authorizes secretary provide grants state local governments demonstration commercial application rechargeable infrastructure sec requires secretary report congress recommendations establishing adopting consensus industry standards electric drive transportation authorizes appropriations report sec requires secretary establish federal_energy_management_program pilot grant program incremental cost precommercial plug electric drive vehicles purchase lease exceed vehicle purchased year vehicle leased recharging infrastructure federal facilities conjunction vehicles requires secretary issue guidelines program sec requires secretary study report end useful life options motor vehicle batteries including batteries electric drive vehicles title enhanced energy efficiency subtitle manufacturing energy efficiency sec amends energy_policy_and_conservation_act epca require secretary provide funding revolving loan program enables manufacturers implement commercially available technologies processes significantly reduce systems energy intensity improve industrial competitiveness requires lenders ensure non federal funds provided match dollar dollar basis funds provided carry loan program limits cost matched funds provided lender million fiscal year provides repayment loans sec requires secretary research development activities doe establish collaborative research development partnerships programs including programs office_of_science leverage research development expertise programs promote early stage energy efficiency technology development apply knowledge expertise help achieve program goals programs requires secretary report congress actions taken carry partnerships years biennially sec requires secretary assess report congress commercially available cost competitive energy efficiency technologies widely implemented united_states energy intensive industries steel aluminum forest paper products food processing metal casting glass chemicals petroleum refining cement information communication technologies industries use large quantities energy emit large quantities ghgs use rapidly increasing quantity energy sec amends energy independence security act include partnership activities eligible funding research establish road map process industry specific studies conducted determine intensity energy use ghg emissions waste operating costs process near- mid- long term targets opportunity established improvements efficiency sustainability resilience actionable plans created achieve road map goals requires secretary specified research industry specific road maps eligible funding establish center_of_excellence highest performing industrial research assessment centers coordinate advise industrial research assessment centers provide funding establish additional industrial research assessment centers institutions higher education centers centers outreach activities pay federal share costs carrying associated internship programs students work industries manufacturers implement centers recommendations requires administrator small_business_administration sba expedite consideration applications loans small business act implement centers recommendations increases appropriations authorized fy2010 fy2012 doe program optimizing energy efficiency economic competitiveness energy intensive industrial commercial sectors sec require secretary doe carry sustainable manufacturing initiative conduct request manufacturer onsite technical assessments identify opportunities maximizing energy efficiency systems preventing pollution minimizing waste reducing use water manufacturing processes conserving natural resources joint industry government partnership program research develop new sustainable manufacturing industrial technologies processes maximize energy efficiency systems reduce pollution conserve natural resources sec amends energy policy act require secretary program award cash prizes recognition achievements science technology carry program pay federal share competitively awarding grants state industry partnerships develop demonstrate new technologies processes industries significantly reduce energy use energy intensive feedstock pollution ghg emissions industrial waste improve domestic industrial cost competitiveness requires state industry partnership agree match federal funds provided carry project sec requires secretary arrange academy study development advanced manufacturing capabilities energy technologies establish advisory steering committee provide recommendations planning implementation doe requires academy report specified congressional committees study subtitle improved efficiency appliances equipment sec amends epca authorize person petition secretary prescribe amend test procedures measure energy use covered products doe energy conservation program consumer products certain industrial equipment requires doe respond petitions days publish rule standard years petition granted sec modifies requiring secretary epa administrator update agreements delineate doe epa responsibilities expands duties secretary administrator include reviewing product categories years market share category reaches updating product criteria categories requiring qualified products demonstrate compliance criteria developing standardized building energy audit methods authorizes appropriations program requires industry consensus test methods developed doe solid state lighting products doe assume responsibility implementation energy_star program solid state lighting sec includes portable light fixtures covered consumer products energy conservation program consumer products automobiles establishes test procedures led fixtures light engines energy conservation standards portable light fixtures art work light fixtures manufactured january requires secretary review standards portable light fixtures determine technologically feasible economically justified excludes federal preemption regulation concerning portable light fixtures adopted january sec requires base lamps incandescent lamp defined ansi adapt line voltage sec requires secretary establish energy conservation standards certain lamps sec establishes energy efficiency standards warm air furnaces input rating manufactured january sec requires secretary january establish program provide rebates expenditures purchase installation certain new electric motors replace installed motors requires secretary provide rebate recipients amounts assist payment expenses relating processing motor core disposal costs authorizes appropriations fy2010 fy2014 sec requires secretary study report congress degree compliance energy standards appliances sec requires secretary study report congress costs benefits requiring high quality direct current electricity supply certain buildings policy role government realizing benefits sec requires secretary conduct assessment electric motors electric motor market united_states establish program targeted motor end users delivered cooperation interested parties increase awareness energy cost saving opportunities commercial industrial facilities higher efficiency electric motors sec requires secretary epa administrator carry jointly report specified congressional committees study determine feasibility advisability adding energy_star program energy tier recognize performing products buildings determined products cost effective consumers subtitle building efficiency sec amends energy_conservation_and_production_act require secretary support updating national model building energy codes standards years achieve overall savings require states certify secretary updated provisions building code energy efficiency complying provisions require secretary report status national model building energy codes standards status code adoption compliance states provide incentive funding states implement energy efficiency codes authorizes appropriations sec requires secretary establish multifamily manufactured housing energy efficiency grant program provide grants carry energy efficiency programs increase energy efficiency multifamily buildings grants renovation manufactured housing constructed rebates assist owners repairing housing housing meets energy_star criteria sec requires secretary provide grants institutions higher education establish building training assessment centers identify opportunities optimizing energy efficiency environmental performance buildings promote application emerging concepts technologies commercial institutional buildings train engineers building scientists building energy permitting enforcement officials building technicians energy efficient design operation assist institutions higher education training building technicians promote research development use alternative energy sources supply heat power buildings particularly energy intensive buildings coordinate assist state accredited technical training centers community colleges local offices national_institute_of_food_and_agriculture ensure services provided region weatherization assistance low income persons sec amends extend increase authorization fy2011 fy2015 weatherization assistance low income persons iii state energy program sec authorize appropriations secretary state energy conservation plans fy2011 fy2015 state energy efficiency grant program sec requires secretary grants states implement energy efficiency retrofit programs authorizes states use grants program provide grants home owners energy efficiency retrofits homes incentives energy efficiency retrofits owners commercial buildings sec requires secretary provide grants states establishing expanding state revolving fund support financing offered qualified entities energy efficiency measures renewable energy improvements existing homes residential buildings federal efficiency sec amends energy policy act revise federal renewable purchase requirement including requiring president ensure government specified renewable energy total energy currently electric energy authorizes contract entered federal agency acquire renewable energy years sec amends national_energy_conservation_policy_act set forth provisions concerning agencies issuing task delivery orders energy saving performance contracts considers issuance task delivery order services satisfy competition requirements authorizes secretary issue guidance agencies issuing orders sec authorizes agencies carrying contracts use private financing energy saving measures sec includes meaning energy savings purposes installation renewable energy systems sec requires secretary develop strategic plan achieve improvement overall energy productivity united_states year maintain annual rate improvement year update plan biennially report congress plan updates sec makes profit hospitals inpatient health care facilities eligible energy sustainability efficiency grants loans authorizes appropriations grants fy2010 fy2015 sec requires agency create implementation strategy maintenance purchase use energy efficient energy reducing information communication technologies practices sets forth reporting requirements energy efficiency information homes buildings sec requires epa administrator establish voluntary energy performance information program broad applicability buildings nationwide provide information comparative energy performance increase public awareness importance building efficiency energy performance public education requires secretary report congress principal building types statistically significant energy performance data exists serve basis building energy performance information building types additional data required requires secretary support improvements commercial buildings energy performance databases characterize achieved performance existing buildings building types covered survey cover additional building types enable development measurement protocols building types cover major commercial building energy use requires secretary establish business consumer education program increase awareness importance building energy efficiency availability building energy performance information requires administrator conduct demonstration projects different building types evaluate efficiency model certificate specifications measurements alternatives proposed state local agencies utilities implementing organizations authorizes secretary request state local government provide grants initial program administration voluntary model building energy information performance program requires secretary report congress progress program sets forth program requirements federal state local buildings authorizes administrator use information developed program establish voluntary energy_star program recognizes high efficiency retrofits existing commercial residential buildings sec requires secretary promulgate uniform rules document energy savings avoided ghg emissions energy efficiency programs projects receive funding governments public utilities require specific levels energy reductions eligible allowances allowance proceeds based energy savings ghg emissions reductions climate change regulations vii residential high performance zero net energy buildings initiative sec requires secretary acting assistant secretary establish carry residential high performance zero net energy building initiative reduce quantity energy consumed increase quantity renewable energy generated residential buildings promote development zero net energy buildings appoint director residential high performance zero net energy buildings carry initiative establishes initiative goals develop disseminate technologies practices policies development establishment zero net energy buildings promote technologies strategies enable design construction zero net energy buildings new residential building constructed cost effective zero net energy building subtitle electric grid sec states policy national electric system efficiency goal optimize efficient planning operation national local electricity systems manner system load factor systems improved year goal met exceeded difference periods lowest highest electricity demand particular focus reducing frequency severity peak demand periods smart grid demand response technologies practices activities requires secretary develop action plan achieve exceed goals update plan years report congress plan establish public website provide data demonstrating progress states load serving entities meeting national electric system efficiency goal sec amends purpa require ferc establish standard electric utility shall available request interconnection service electric consumer serves respect facility generates kilowatts electric energy premises electric consumer report congress years act enactment standard amended apply facilities generate kilowatts amend standard appropriate establish model standard interconnection small power production facilities capacity greater kilowatts greater megawatts title iii cyber security electric transmission grid sec amends federal power act require ferc issue rules orders protect critical electric infrastructure cybersecurity vulnerabilities makes rules orders expire standard developed approved address vulnerability authorizes secretary energy immediate action necessary protect critical electric infrastructure cybersecurity threat require persons action avert mitigate threat requires ferc establish mechanism permits public utilities recover incurred costs required implement immediate actions ordered secretary requires secretary defense prepare comprehensive plan identifies emergency measures actions taken protect reliability electric power supply national defense facilities located alaska hawaii guam event imminent cybersecurity threat subtitle nuclear energy sec amends nuclear waste policy act establish conduct comprehensive study alternative means safely managing disposing spent nuclear fuel high level radioactive waste civilian nuclear activity atomic energy defense activity recommend congress legislative action manage dispose fuel waste successfully safely review doe efforts implement prior repository programs review programs commercial spent nuclear fuel recommend measures provide economic compensation incentives state local governments indian tribes agree host repositories reprocessing facilities regional storage facilities study alternative approaches managing construction operation civilian nuclear waste facilities study means financing nuclear waste management disposal activities terminates commission days date final report submitted sec expresses sense congress government reaffirm policy support use expansion nuclear energy technology production electricity industrial applications reduction ghg emissions fulfill government obligation respect spent nuclear fuel high level radioactive waste sec amends energy policy act amend advanced fuel recycling technology research development demonstration program directing secretary energy complete development testing complete integrated process steps involved advanced fuel recycling process characterize waste streams resulting steps develop waste treatment processes designs disposal facilities waste streams develop generic environmental impact statement technologies developed program conduct design engineering work sufficient develop firm cost estimates respect development advanced fuel recycling processes nrc licensing related regulatory authority atomic energy act facilities use advanced fuel recycling process requires nrc establish standards protection radiation resulting activities facilities use advanced fuel recycling process epa administrator establish generally applicable environmental standards protection public environment radioactive material released facilities use advanced fuel recycling process requires secretary direct nuclear_waste_technical_review_board evaluate report readiness advanced fuel recycling technology research development demonstration program detailed design engineering licensing deployment advanced fuel recycling processes requires secretary submit congress reports subtitle improving united states strategic reserves sec amends epca require strategic_petroleum_reserve spr contain million barrels refined petroleum products directs secretary submit president president approves congress plan inclusion products spr prohibits drawdown sale spr petroleum products secretary determines drawdown sale required severe energy market supply interruption obligations international energy program sale refined petroleum products mitigate impacts weather related natural events resulted severe energy market disruption subtitle oil gas leasing sec amends mineral leasing act extend authorization appropriations coordination processing oil gas use authorizations oil gas inspection enforcement onshore federal land jurisdiction fy2016 fy2020 sec amends geothermal steam act authorize land oil gas lease issued pursuant mineral leasing act oil gas production occurring approved permit available leasing geothermal energy produced producing capable producing oil gas public interest served issuance lease order provide geothermal energy oil gas outer continental shelf sec amends energy policy act require secretary interior conduct report congress public seismic inventory oil gas prepare summary information waters outer continental shelf ocs eastern_gulf mexico sec requires secretary interior establish regional joint ocs lease permitting processing office alaska outer continental shelf region sec amends gulf_of_mexico_energy_security act prohibit secretary interior offering june oil gas exploration lease eastern_planning_area gulf_of_mexico miles coastline florida current leasing moratorium prohibits leasing activities miles coastline authorizes secretary offer lease area dome area amends outer_continental_shelf_lands_act instruct secretary defense dod recommend president certain areas ocs remain energy exploration restrictions authorize dod secretary offer leasing areas available leasing act sec repeals incentives natural gas production deep wells shallow waters gulf_of_mexico royalty relief deep water production iii miscellaneous sec amends federal_oil_and_gas_royalty_management_act require director minerals_management_service appointed president advice consent senate sec amends revise provisions concerning loan guarantees alaska natural gas pipeline including allowing certificate holders request secretary energy extend period issue guarantee instruments sec authorizes secretary interior issue right way permits high pressure natural gas transmission pipeline non wilderness areas denali_national_park near segment george parks highway park distribution transmission pipelines appurtenances provide natural gas supply park sec amends prohibit subject exemption trans alaska oil pipeline system considered district site building structure object purposes national_historic_preservation_act sec amends energy independence security act revise lifecycle ghg emission related restrictions procurement alternative synthetic fuels state contract conditions allow procurement sec establishes department_of_the_interior grant program states state geologic surveys build maintain operate centers store geologic samples collected result oil gas exploration mineral exploration studies research subtitle public lands renewable energy deployment sec amends energy policy act require secretary interior party pilot project improve federal permit coordination designate bureau_of_land_management blm field offices alaska arizona california colorado idaho oregon new_mexico nevada montana utah washington wyoming serve renewable energy permit coordination offices sec authorizes funding implementing geothermal steam act sec requires secretary interior complete programmatic environmental impact statement national_environmental_policy_act analyze potential impacts program develop solar energy land administered blm necessary amendments land use plans land amend land use plans appropriate provide development renewable energy requires secretary agriculture complete programmatic environmental impact statement analyze potential impacts program develop solar wind energy national_forest_system land necessary amendments land use plans land amend land use plans appropriate provide development renewable energy sec requires secretary interior arrange academy study siting development management projects production wind solar energy land available energy development administered blm national_forest_system land administered secretary agriculture available energy development requires secretary interior report congress study sec requires secretary energy conjunction epa administrator partnership national_renewable_energy_laboratory identify opportunities prioritize renewable energy development brownfield sites provide state local governments project developers stakeholders publicly available resources identifying potential brownfield sites renewable energy provide technical assistance state local officials project developers stakeholders expedite renewable energy production brownfield sites identified requires secretary administrator report congress proposals encourage renewable energy production sites data existing potential job creation environmental benefits energy production renewable energy brownfield sites conduct stakeholder forums assist renewable energy project siting brownfield sites sec requires secretary interior establish wind solar leasing pilot program establish leasing program wind solar energy program public interest provides effective means developing wind solar energy covered land provide reasonable transition use rights way leases development wind solar energy establish royalties fees rentals bonuses payments ensure fair return united_states lease issued establish terms conditions duration issuance transfer renewal suspension cancellation lease provide payment revenues received government result leasing issuance rights ways wind solar development federal_land_policy_and_management_act state leased land right way located directs secretary require holder lease furnish surety bond form security provide reclamation restoration area covered lease comply requirements protect interest public united_states sets forth provisions concerning indemnification agreements prohibits secretary recipient cooperative agreement liability arising conduct grossly negligent constitutes intentional misconduct requires secretary collect fee indemnification agreements equal net present value payments united_states cover liability indemnification agreement subtitle carbon capture sec requires secretary energy implement program demonstrate commercial application integrated systems capture injection monitoring long term geological storage carbon dioxide industrial sources authorizes secretary enter cooperative agreements provide financial technical assistance demonstration projects sets forth requirements demonstration projects relating site safety environmental protection remediation site closure sec requires secretary provide grants training state employees involved permitting management carbon capture transportation storage projects subtitle island energy sec requires secretary acting assistant secretary assemble team technical policy financial experts address energy needs affiliated islands puerto_rico guam american_samoa commonwealth_of_the_northern_mariana_islands federated_states micronesia republic_of_the_marshall_islands republic_of_palau provide assistance utility government affiliated island develop implement energy action plan reduce reliance island imported fossil fuels increased efficiency use indigenous clean energy resources report congress progress affiliated island implementing plan reducing reliance fossil fuel title energy innovation workforce development subtitle funding sec authorizes appropriations secretary fy2010 fy2013 research development demonstration commercial application activities energy efficiency conservation distributed energy electric energy system activities renewable energy nuclear energy fossil energy research development demonstration commercial application activities subtitle sec requires secretary acting secretary science secretary energy establish accelerate solutions establishment large scale multidisciplinary activities blend research basic applied engineering sciences technology development requires secretaries initiate activities bring skills talents multiple investigators enable high risk cross cutting research scope complexity practicable individual investigators subtitle improvements sec amends america competes act require director advanced_research_projects_agency-energy arpa provide congress road map describing strategic vision arpa-e use guide choices arpa-e future technology investments october currently october sec amends require secretary acting assistant secretary energy efficiency renewable energy conduct research program manufacturing batteries battery systems support electric drive vehicles improving processes developing new manufacturing processes enable higher quality expensive batteries authorizes appropriations domestic vehicle energy storage manufacturing research program sec amends energy independence security act authorize appropriations program determine ways weight motor vehicles reduced improve fuel efficiency compromising passenger safety fy2010 fy2013 sec amends authorize secretary carrying program methane hydrate research development award grants enter contracts agreements institutions conduct research identify explore assess develop methane hydrate commercially viable source energy assess mitigate environmental impact hydrate identify characterize methane hydrate resources remote sensing seismic data develop technologies required efficient environmentally sound development methane hydrate resources develop technologies reduce risks drilling methane conduct exploratory drilling testing production testing operations gas expand education training programs methane hydrate resource research resource development fellowships means graduate education training requires secretary conduct long term environmental monitoring program study effects production methane hydrate reservoirs authorizes funding fy2011 fy2015 sec authorizes secretary support programs research development commercial application conservation expand domestic production low btu gas fuel gas heating value btu cubic foot measured higher heating value resulting inclusion gases helium resources requires secretary support civilian research program develop advanced membrane technology separation gases applications research program develop technologies separating gathering processing helium low concentrations occurs naturally geologic reservoirs formations working doe research program develop technologies recycling reprocessing reusing helium develop industrial gathering technologies capture helium chemical processing sec amends department_of_energy_organization_act authorize secretary establish promote research development deployment electric power technology cost effective especially suited meet needs rural remote regions united_states especially regions present located nearby promote research development deployment regions enhanced oil recovery technology gas liquids technology liquefied natural gas small hydroelectric facilities river turbines tidal power natural gas coal bed methane shallow bed natural gas promote research development deployment alternative energy research regions cold weather sec amends energy policy act program research development demonstration commercial application technologies ultra deepwater unconventional natural gas petroleum resource exploration production terminates authority provided program september currently september increases funding program subtitle energy workforce development sec amends require director science engineering disseminate best practices career pathway programs public secondary schools prepare students careers energy technology industry provide sufficient training allow academy graduates secure entry level employment apprenticeship energy technology industry secretary acting director award renewable year grants state educational agencies competitive basis provide assistance local educational agencies costs establishing expanding energy career academies sec amends protecting_america require secretary establish program expand enhance educational capabilities community colleges prepare students careers trades relevant energy utility industry award competitive grants community colleges establish expand academic degree programs energy utility trades including technicians nuclear utilities industry sec amends energy policy act require secretary establish program communicate information workforce trends energy technology industries guidance counselors secondary schools career development offices institutions higher education principals district superintendents requires secretary create maintain website interface federal trio programs gear programs provide students information careers energy technology industries sec requires director office_of_science_and_technology_policy report congress energy workforce training programs funded federal agencies sec requires secretary coordination secretary labor carry joint sustainable energy workforce training education program award grants community colleges provide workforce training education industries practices alternative energy energy efficiency construction sustainable energy technologies water energy conservation recycling waste reduction sustainable agriculture farming nuclear energy technology subtitle strengthening education training sec states policy maintain expand human capital needed preserve foster security economically viable clean energy groundwater mineral resources united_states financial assistance science technology programs educate train retrain personnel needed energy groundwater mineral resources security provide research funds institutions higher education assist recognized programs subsurface geosciences engineering education research sec requires secretary provide funds institutions higher education recognized programs provide merit based scholarships undergraduate engineering education general subsurface applications graduate fellowships applied geosciences subsurface engineering sec requires secretary support programs subsurface geosciences engineering focused technology skill development energy groundwater science mineral production related maintenance operational safety energy infrastructure protection security prepare students advanced supervisory roles geothermal petroleum mining geological carbon storage groundwater mineral mining industries grant associate degree certificate baccalaureate degree prepare students higher education recognized programs sec requires secretary establish advise secretary education training subsurface geosciences engineering sec amends energy policy act require secretary interior arrange academy study availability skilled workers meet energy mineral security requirements requires secretary report congress study authorizes appropriations subtitle miscellaneous sec amends energy policy act include meaning national_laboratory sec amends energy independence security act include program expand marine hydrokinetic renewable energy production programs apply advanced systems engineering system integration methods identify critical interfaces develop open standards marine hydrokinetic renewable energy transfer resulting intellectual property industry stakeholders public information published interface definitions standards demonstration projects develop incentives industry comply standards requires secretary establish marine based energy device verification program provide bridge marine hydrokinetic renewable energy capture device design development efforts underway industry commercial deployment marine hydrokinetic renewable energy devices fund facilitate development installation evaluate marine hydrokinetic renewable energy projects requires secretary establish program advance development marine hydrokinetic renewable energy help fund costs evaluating environmental effects deployment demonstration projects help enable entities collect types environmental data required working public resource monitor impacts demonstration projects resulting information available dissemination help fund cost advancing technologies ocean riverine environments demonstration projects development deployment title energy markets sec amends department_of_energy_organization_act require eia administrator develop cooperation cftc information identifying oil inventories physical oil assets owned largest traders oil contracts requires administrator collect information commercial storage capacity oil natural gas united_states update information annually amends establish eia director report eia administrator analysis financial aspects energy markets sec establishes investigate effect increased financial investment energy commodities energy prices energy security recommend president congress laws needed prevent excessive speculation energy commodity markets order prevent minimize adverse impact excessive speculation energy prices consumers economy review energy security implications developments international energy markets requires working_group conduct study report congress examination price formation crude oil refined petroleum products relevant international regulatory regimes degree changes energy market transparency liquidity structure influenced driven abuse manipulation excessive speculation inefficient price formation sec requires secretary energy expand ensure project online database periodically updated expanded project web interface allow individuals institutions enter tariff data requires secretary ferc coordinate develop website available public metadata formats data converted formats sec amends federal power act authorize ferc emergency order temporary suspension modification rate term condition service ensure reliability service electric consumers protect electric consumers potential abuse market power market manipulation wholesale electric markets provides review extension orders authorizes ferc order entity cease desist manipulating market sale electric energy wholesale interstate commerce violation act sec amends natural gas act authorize ferc order entity cease desist manipulating market purchase sale natural gas transportation services violation act authorizes ferc enter temporary order requiring respondent cease desist violation prohibition market manipulation likely result significant conversion assets significant harm natural gas consumers substantial harm public interest actions pending completion proceedings prevent violation conversion assets harm title policy studies reports sec requires secretary interior acting director united_states_geological_survey usgs complete report congress comprehensive national helium gas assessment identifies quantity helium reservoir comprehensive national assessment identifies known deposits provides quantitative assessment location size undiscovered deposits sec amends department_of_energy_organization_act require president transmit proposed plan february currently april biennially requires proposed plan analyze government policies encourage energy production energy efficiency united_states reduction avoidance sequestration ghgs united_states reduction air pollutants environment requires president acting secretary energy arrange academy prepare review submit congress reports analyses contribute development proposed plan sec requires secretary energy working interagency task force established act prepare report congress interagency report climate change energy policy china india sec requires secretary study report congress risk carbon leakage changes industrial output investment caused potential cap trade program economy wide program enacted congress ghg emission allowances distributed auctioned control emissions clean air act absence commensurate ghg emission regulations countries impact potential measures prevent carbon leakage resulting cap trade program foreign fuel subsidies sec amends energy policy act require secretary include annual report assessment renewable energy resources consideration quantity biomass needed thermal applications biofuels biomass based electricity highest efficiency energy use biomass resources requirements costs associated deployment biomass energy resources requires report contain estimates market penetration renewable energy resource accomplished january sec requires secretary complete efficiency review quantify efficiencies annual carbon dioxide emissions electric generation facilities united_states requires secretary submit report congress identifies technologies equipment processes adequately demonstrated commercially deployed increase efficiency electric generation facilities reviewed identifies obstacles electric generation facilities undertaking installation implementation technologies equipment processes identifies actions reduce eliminate obstacles calculates effect total ghg emissions electric generation facilities result installation implementation technologies equipment processes calculates effect ghg emissions megawatt hour electric generation facilities result installation implementation technologies equipment processes sec requires secretary carry research demonstration program evaluate emissions use alternative transportation fuels evaluate effect alternative transportation fuels land air engine exhaust emissions submit report congress effect air quality public health alternative fuels transportation sector issue guidance technical support documents necessary facilitate effective use alternative transportation fuels blends engage research centers alternative fuels evaluation preparation report report congress interim final report actions taken carry program sec states policy reduce dependence foreign oil requires interagency task force established act report congress options agency action save baseline established reference case contained eia report entitled annual energy outlook specified volumes oil analysis expected oil savings baseline accomplished increases clean air act renewable fuel standard options taken expected oil savings achieve reduction volumes specified requires secretary submit congress annual report estimates quantity oil actually saved oil saving measures