Sec. 5. Marine-based energy device verification program
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The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 17211 et seq. ) is amended— by redesignating sections 635 and 636 ( 42 U.S.C. 17214 , 17215) as sections 638 and 639, respectively; and by inserting after section 634 ( 42 U.S.C. 17213 ) the following: The Secretary shall establish a marine-based energy device verification program to 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.
The purposes of the program are to fund, facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy projects, in partnership with Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and in conjunction with Centers established under section 634, universities and other institutions of higher education, private business entities, and other appropriate organizations, in order— to increase marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy experience; and to build and operate enough candidate devices to obtain statistically significant operating and maintenance data.
The objectives of the program shall include— verifying the performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost of new marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy device designs and system components in an operating environment; providing States, regulators, utilities, and other stakeholders with a valid opportunity to test and evaluate marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology in new areas; documenting and communicating the experience from those projects for the benefit of utilities, independent power producers, other nonutility generators, device suppliers, and others in the marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy development community; and resolving environmental issues through robust characterization, reliable impact prediction, effective monitoring, development, and use of adaptive management, and informing engineering design to improve environmental performance. .
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