---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16196"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16196"
heading: "Energy Efficiency Science Initiative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16196"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part A — Energy Efficiency"
---

# §16196. Energy Efficiency Science Initiative

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish an Energy Efficiency Science Initiative to be managed by the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) in the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) with responsibility for energy conservation under [section 7133(a)(9) of this title](/usc/42/7133.md?p=a-9), in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office of Science, for grants to be competitively awarded and subject to peer review for research relating to energy efficiency.
- (b) **Report—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall submit to Congress, along with the annual budget request of the President submitted to Congress, a report on the activities of the Energy Efficiency Science Initiative, including a description of the process used to award the funds and an explanation of how the research relates to energy efficiency.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 916, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 862.)