POWER Act
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Power Efficiency and Resiliency Act or the POWER Act
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a 30% energy tax credit for combined heat and power system property and increase the capacity limitations for such property, (2) extend until December 31, 2018, the placed-in-service deadline for such property, and (3) allow a 30% energy tax credit for waste heat to power property (property comprising a system generating electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource) placed in service before January 1, 2019.
Includes within the definition of "qualified waste heat resource": (1) exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process; (2) waste gas or industrial tail gas that would otherwise be flared, incinerated, or vented; and (3) a pressure drop in any gas for an industrial or commercial process. Excludes from such definition any heat resource from a process the primary purpose of which is the generation of electricity utilizing a fossil fuel or nuclear energy.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3779-3780)
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1516: POWER Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1516/
"S. 1516: POWER Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1516/.
S. 1516, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1516/.
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