---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17124"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17124"
heading: "Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency Finance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17124"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Energy Savings in Buildings and Industry"
  - "Part E — General Provisions"
---

# §17124. Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency Finance

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3), acting through the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, shall establish an [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) on Energy Efficiency Finance to provide advice and recommendations to the [Department](/usc/42/17001.md?p=1) on energy efficiency finance and investment issues, options, ideas, and trends, and to assist the energy community in identifying practical ways of lowering costs and increasing investments in energy efficiency technologies.
- (b) **Membership—** The [advisory committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) established under this section shall have a balanced membership that shall include members with expertise in—
  - (1) availability of seed capital;
  - (2) availability of venture capital;
  - (3) availability of other sources of private equity;
  - (4) investment banking with respect to corporate finance;
  - (5) investment banking with respect to mergers and acquisitions;
  - (6) equity capital markets;
  - (7) debt capital markets;
  - (8) research analysis;
  - (9) sales and trading;
  - (10) commercial lending; and
  - (11) residential lending.
- (c) **Termination—** The [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) on Energy Efficiency Finance shall terminate on the date that is 10 years after December 19, 2007.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) for carrying out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 495, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1654.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.