Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2019

Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2019

This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a Climate Solutions Challenges program. Under the program, DOE must carry out competitions that award cash and other incentives for climate and energy solutions, such as

• capturing carbon and converting the carbon into a beneficial use,
• achieving transformative increases in energy efficiency,
• achieving implementation or grid integration of advanced energy storage technology,
• providing approaches to mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change, or
• providing data analytics on the climate and related phenomena.