Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act

Current understanding

A 2013 Senate bill that would have directed the Department of Commerce to award matching grants of up to $30 million per year, for up to five years, to nonprofit-led consortia developing and commercializing clean energy and advanced manufacturing technologies. The bill was introduced but never advanced. It fits a broader pattern of proposals to use consortia-based, cost-shared federal grants to bridge the lab-to-market gap in energy and manufacturing.

Evidence log

• 2013-11-13 — Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act: cross-connection with national-innovation-act-2006: Both propose Commerce-led, consortium- or cluster-based grant mechanisms to accelerate advanced manufacturing commercialization. (novelty: 2)

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