---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15971"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15971"
heading: "Integrated coal/renewable energy system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15971"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IV — Coal"
  - "Part B — Clean Power Projects"
---

# §15971. Integrated coal/renewable energy system

- (a) **In general—** Subject to the availability of appropriations, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) may provide [loan guarantees](/usc/42/16371.md?p=8) for a [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) to produce energy from coal of less than 7,000 Btu/lb. using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology, including repowering of existing facilities, that—
  - (1) is combined with wind and other renewable sources;
  - (2) minimizes and offers the potential to sequester carbon dioxide emissions; and
  - (3) provides a ready source of hydrogen for near-site [fuel cell](/usc/42/16121.md?p=1) demonstrations.
- (b) **Requirements—** The facility—
  - (1) may be built in stages;
  - (2) shall have a combined output of at least 200 megawatts at successively more competitive rates; and
  - (3) shall be located in the Upper Great Plains.
- (c) **Technical criteria—** Technical criteria described in [section 15962(b) of this title](/usc/42/15962.md?p=b) shall apply to the facility.
- (d) **Investment tax credits—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [loan guarantees](/usc/42/16371.md?p=8) provided under this section do not preclude the facility from receiving an [allocation](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) for investment tax credits under [section 48A of title 26](/usc/26/48A.md).
  - (2) **Other funding—** Use of the investment tax credit described in [paragraph (1)](#d-1) does not prohibit the use of other clean coal program funding.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 411, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 754.)