Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2025

The bill would amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to add a new reporting requirement for the Department of Energy's clean energy demonstration program. Starting within six months of enactment and at least every six months thereafter, the Secretary of Energy would be required to submit a status report to four congressional committees and make that report publicly available in digital online format. Each report would have to cover, for every covered or supported demonstration project: copies of initial contracts or financial assistance agreements with award recipients, a list of technical, material, or financial milestones that have or have not been met, and any material changes to a project's scope, schedule, funding profile, cost-share requirements, partners, or budget.

The bill would not create a new demonstration program, alter project eligibility, or direct any spending. The Secretary would also be allowed to synchronize these new reports with other already-required reports to reduce duplication.

The Department of Energy and its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which would bear the new reporting obligation. Award recipients — companies, universities, and other entities receiving DOE contracts or financial assistance for clean energy demonstration projects — would have their contract terms and milestone performance disclosed publicly. The four congressional committees receiving the reports and members of the public seeking project data would also be directly served.

Award recipients under DOE clean energy demonstration programs would see their contracts, milestone performance, and budget modifications made publicly available online on a regular schedule. For Congress and the public, this would create a consistent, searchable record of how billions of dollars in demonstration-program funding are being used, what milestones are being hit or missed, and how project terms are changing over time.

Within six months of enactment, the Secretary of Energy must file the first semiannual report with the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology; the House Committee on Appropriations; the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; and the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and simultaneously post it in a digital online format. Subsequent reports follow at least every six months. To ease the administrative burden, the Secretary may synchronize these new reports with existing required reports under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Energy Act of 2020, so long as the required content is included.