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HR 2812 112th Congress House

Heat is Power Act

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for producing electricity from wasted heat.

Introduced: August 5, 2011 Introduced by: Tonko, Paul Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
Taxation Alternative and renewable resourcesElectric power generation and transmissionIncome tax creditsOil and gas
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Heat is Power Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow through 2017: (1) an energy tax credit for investment in wasted heat to electricity property; and (2) a tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources for wasted heat. Defines "wasted heat to electricity property" as property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified wasted heat resource (e.g., exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process or waste gas or industrial tail gas, but not a heat resource from a process whose primary purpose is the generation of electricity using a fossil fuel).

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2812: Heat is Power Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2812/
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"H.R. 2812: Heat is Power Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2812/.
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H.R. 2812, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2812/.
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