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DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Appropriations, FY2025
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of
(MESC); and the Federal Energy Management Program
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is
(FEMP), which were previously funded within the EERE
responsible for enabling renewable energy and end-use
account. The total request for FY2025, including the newly
energy efficiency technology development and
proposed accounts, is $3.869 billion—a 11.8% increase
implementation. Other activities include issuing grants for
over the FY2024 enacted level. Program direction for all
home energy efficiency and state energy planning,
four accounts in the FY2025 budget request comprises
establishing minimum energy conservation standards for
7.0% of the total request.
appliances and equipment, and providing technical support.
Overall, DOE’s stated goal for EERE funding is to invest in
EERE collaborates with industry, academia, national
“programmatic priority areas for lowering the U.S.
laboratories, and others to conduct and support research,
greenhouse gas (GHG) profile.” Specific proposed funding
development, demonstration, and deployment activities.
increases were aimed at decarbonization activities in the
EERE also manages programs that support state and local
electricity sector, the transportation industry, and energy-
governments, tribes, and schools. Further, EERE oversees
intensive industries; reducing the carbon footprint of
and supports the research and infrastructure of the National
buildings; and energy-related aspects of the agriculture
Renewable Energy Laboratory, including its research and
sector, especially the energy-water nexus. Other priorities
development on technologies for renewable energy and
include ensuring economic benefits go to communities that
energy efficiency.
might be impacted by DOE’s envisaged transition of the
energy system or that might be disproportionately affected
EERE Appropriations
by pollution.
EERE generally receives funding through the annual
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies
Table 1 lists the new accounts proposed by DOE, broken
(EWD) appropriations bill. EWD funding was enacted as
out by funding for program activities and program
Division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024
direction, a type of corporate support. Funding for program
(P.L. 118-42). Division D included $3.460 billion for
direction would increase by $2.8 million over the FY2024
EERE, the same as in FY2023 in the Consolidated
request for the three accounts, despite a proposed decrease
Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328).
in program activities funding. For the EERE account, DOE
is requesting $194.8 million for program direction.
In addition, EERE receives funding through the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58).
Table 1. DOE’s Proposed New Accounts for FY2025
IIJA provided a total of $16.264 billion in additional
(in millions of dol ars)
emergency appropriations for EERE, of which $1.945
billion is directed to FY2025 (see Table 2). EERE also
Program
Program
Total
received $17.962 billion in additional funding through P.L.
Name
Activities
Direction
117-169 (often referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of
SCEP
534.0
40.0
574.0
2022, or IRA). The IRA funding is available from FY2022
through either FY2026, FY2027, FY2029, or FY2031,
MESC
93.4
20.0
113.4
depending on the provision.
FEMP
46.8
17.2
64.0
Executive Branch Actions
Source: DOE FY2025 Congressional Justification, DOE/CF-0204,
For FY2025, the Biden Administration requested $3.118
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billion for EERE, a 9.9% decrease versus FY2024 enacted
of $3.460 billion. The FY2025 request also proposes the
Legislative Actions
creation of three new accounts totaling $751.4 million,
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole
additional to the EERE money and corresponding to
announced a top-line amount of $1.960 billion for EERE in
activities managed by the Under Secretary for Infrastructure
the draft Energy and Water Development and Related
(designated as “S3” in the DOE organization)—a position
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025, that was released June
DOE created in FY2023. These new accounts are the Office
27, 2024. The draft bill, Title III, continues funding MESC,
of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP); the
SCEP, and FEMP within the EERE appropriations account.
Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains
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Table 2. Appropriations: EERE Account and DOE-Proposed Accounts, FY2024 and FY2025
(in millions of dol ars)
FY2024
FY2024
FY2025
FY2025
Account (in italics) and Program Activity
IIJAa
Enacted
IIJA
Request
EERE, Total
1,945.0
3,460.0
1,945.0
3,118.0b
Sustainable Transportation
1,440.0
895.0
1,440.0
951.8
Vehicle Technologies
1,240.0c
450.0
1,240.0c
501.8
Bioenergy Technologies
—
275.0
—
280.0
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
200.0
170.0
200.0
170.0
Renewable Energy
—
795.0
—
898.2
Solar Energy
—
318.0
—
318.0
Wind Energy
—
137.0
—
199.0
Water Power
—
200.0
—
160.0
Geothermal Technologies
—
118.0
—
156.2
Renewable Energy Grid Integration
—
22.0
—
65.0
Energy Efficiency
505.0
784.0
505.0
847.2
Advanced Manufacturing
250.0d
452.0e
250.0d
507.2f
Building Technologies
255.0g
332.0
255.0g
340.0
State and Community Energyh
—
471.0
—
—
Weatherization
—
366.0
—
—
State Energy Program
—
66.0
—
—
Local Government Energy Program
—
12.0
—
—
Energy Future Grants
—
27.0
—
—
Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chainsh
—
18.0
—
—
Federal Energy Management Programh
—
43.0
—
—
Corporate Support
—
454.0
—
420.8
Rescissions
—
—
—
—
SCEP
—
—
—
574.0
MESC
—
—
—
113.4
FEMP
—
—
—
64.0
Total, All Accounts (Annual Appropriations)
3,460.0
3,869.4
Sources: H.Rept. 118-126; S.Rept. 118-72; P.L. 117-58; P.L. 117-169; P.L. 118-42, Division D, Joint Explanatory Statement; DOE FY2025
Congressional Justification, DOE/CF-0204, Volume 3 and Volume 4; Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2025, Appendix.
Notes: Columns may not sum due to rounding. SCEP = Office of State and Community Energy Programs, MESC = Office of Manufacturing and
Energy Supply Chains, and FEMP = Federal Energy Management Program.
a. The placement of IIJA funding in the various rows is the same as in DOE’s FY2023 Congressional Budget Request, DOE/CF-0184, Vol. 4,
pp. 17-18. Footnotes to Table 2 indicate those instances in which the IIJA money is executed by a DOE office other than EERE.
b. The FY2025 request for the EERE account did not include funding for SCEP, MESC, and FEMP because the President’s budget request
proposed that they be funded in separate appropriations accounts from EERE.
c. Of this amount, $1,200 mil ion of funding is being executed in MESC: Battery Materials Recycling Grants and Battery Manufacturing and
Recycling Grants.
d. Of this amount, $100 mil ion is for programs authorized by IIJA §40314, which DOE cal s the Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing Recycling
RD&D Program; and $150 mil ion is being executed within MESC in the Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program.
e. This value is the sum of two categories in the FY2024 enacted appropriation: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies
(recommendation of $215 mil ion) and Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization (recommendation of $237 mil ion).
f.
This value is the sum of two categories in the FY2025 request: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies ($220.0 mil ion) and
Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization ($287.2 mil ion).
g. Of this amount, $100 mil ion is being carried out in SCEP: Energy Efficiency Improvements and Renewable Improvements at Public School
Facilities, and a further $110 mil ion in MESC: Implementation Grants for Industrial Research and Assessment Centers, Sec. 457(i) of the
Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA, P.L. 110-140), as amended by IIJA §40521; and Industrial Research and Assessment Centers,
Sec. 457(a)-(h) of EISA, as amended by IIJA §40521.
h. For FY2025, no funding is shown for these activities because DOE is proposing to transfer funding to the respective new accounts shown
in the table in italics—SCEP, MESC, and FEMP. DOE had made a similar proposal in FY2024 that was not enacted.
Martin C. Offutt, Analyst in Energy Policy
Corrie E. Clark, Specialist in Energy Policy
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