Energy
BIRD Energy and U.S.-Israel Energy Center Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Introduced
- Committee
- House
- Senate
- President
- Law
- Introduced
- March 21, 2025
- Sponsor
- · D–FL
- Recorded roll calls
- None recorded
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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The bill would extend and reauthorize United States-Israel energy cooperation authorities. It would increase cooperative research authorization from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 and Energy Center authorization from $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2031. It would add hydrogen, fusion, industrial decarbonization, carbon management, agrivoltaics, grid modernization, and cybersecurity for energy infrastructure to the authorized cooperation categories, and extend the program through 2035.
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