“The investment is going to upgrade scientific facilities that tens of thousands of researchers come to [DOE’s national] labs to use every single year,” said Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm in an online press conference. “The fundamental science and technology development that’s occurring at the national labs can unlock the clean-energy technologies that we need to tackle climate change.”
The legislation that became the IRA began as a push by Congress and the Biden administration to help revive the economy after the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Early versions of the bill contained $13 billion for DOE science projects, and tens of billions of dollars more for other federal research agencies.
Among the individual projects, by far the biggest winner was the United States’s effort to build parts forunder construction in southern France. DOE gave the project an additional $256 million—roughly one-sixth of the entire windfall. That’s on top of the $242 million DOE spent on U.S. ITER in fiscal 2022, which ended on 30 September, and the $240 million the agency has requested for U.S. ITER for fiscal 2023. All told, the United States is expected to contribute at least $4.
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