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Hsieh: DOE has $43B available to deploy over the next six months

Elaine Hsieh · Investors riff on the new era for climate investing · Oct 16, 2023 · at 50:57

Elaine Hsieh, speaking on clean energy funding opportunities at the Department of Energy, details the historic amounts of non-loan capital being disbursed to support climate projects.

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“Just in the next six months or so, it's almost, it's more than, like, forty-three billion. That's just right now. I mean, we've already deployed sixty-seven billion. So there's a ton, and that's not even including the loan program.”

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The claim, plainly

The US Department of Energy has deployed $67 billion and has more than $43 billion available to deploy in the next six months, excluding the Loan Programs Office.

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Assessment

The claim fails on both legs based on official Department of Energy (DOE) and federal spending tracking data. First, total non-Loan Programs Office (LPO) funding across the entire lifespans of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL, ~$62 billion) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA, ~$35 billion) totaled under $100 billion. As of October 2023, DOE had not deployed $67 billion; cumulative project selections and awards under BIL and IRA did not reach even $46.4 billion until Spring 2024, with actual cash outlays as of late 2023 in the low-to-mid tens of billions. Second, new non-LPO funding opportunities made available or scheduled for deployment between October 2023 and April 2024 totaled roughly $10 billion to $15 billion, falling far short of the claimed >$43 billion threshold.

Total non-LPO appropriations stewarded across BIL (~$62B) and IRA (~$35B) totaled under $100 billion across multi-year lifecycles, making a combined $110 billion deployment figure mathematically incompatible with the non-LPO portfolio.
DOE Office of Infrastructure records show cumulative non-LPO project selections and awards under BIL/IRA reached $46.4 billion only by Spring 2024, well below $67 billion as of October 2023.
New non-LPO funding opportunities announced between October 2023 and April 2024 totaled approximately $10B-$15B (including GRIP rounds 1 and 2 and Industrial Demonstrations), substantially below the >$43B target.

Checked against

[1] cascadeclimate.org [2] trellis.net [3] duke.edu [4] voloearth.com [5] canarymedia.com [6] canarymedia.com [7] eesi.org [8] gao.gov

DOE "Office of Infrastructure" BIL IRA total funding billions DOE announced deployed billions October 2023 April 2024 IIJA IRA "Elaine Hsieh" "Department of Energy" OR "DOE" "Elaine Hsieh" "The Green Blueprint" DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Inflation Reduction Act funding deployed October 2023

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