Sec. 116. Strategy for advanced and reliable energy infrastructure
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The President shall direct a whole-of-government effort, through the National Security Council, to establish a comprehensive, integrated, multiyear strategy, in consultation with the United States private sector— to strengthen energy security; to increase clean energy and trade; to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and congestion from transportation sectors; and to expand energy access in developing countries that are critical to United States interests around the world. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for the next 5 years, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall establish a United States Government strategy to increase United States exports of clean energy technology to assist foreign countries in— strengthening their energy security; creating open, efficient, rule-based, and transparent energy markets; improving free, fair, and reciprocal energy trading relationships; and expanding access to affordable, reliable, clean energy and low carbon transportation.
It is the sense of Congress that— the United States should establish bilateral, multilateral, and regional initiatives to increase energy security in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Indo-Pacific region; the United States should explore opportunities to partner with the private sector and multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, to promote universal access to reliable clean energy and less carbon intensive transportation in developing countries; the United States should establish a partnership between the Department of Energy national laboratories and the governments of appropriate countries to provide technical assistance with respect to electrical grid development and the development and deployment of new and advanced clean energy technologies including low- and zero-emission vehicles; and the United States should seek to encourage and support the export of United States-based efforts for the development and deployment of new and advanced clean energy technology, including low- and zero-emissions vehicles, as a central element of the development strategy of the United States.