DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Appropriations, FY2026

Updated January 29, 2026

DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Appropriations, FY2026

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is

responsible for renewable energy and end-use energy

efficiency technology development. Other activities include

issuing grants for home energy efficiency and state energy

planning, establishing minimum energy conservation

standards for appliances and equipment, and providing

technical support. EERE collaborates with industry,

academia, national laboratories, and others to conduct and

support research, development, demonstration, and

deployment activities. EERE also manages programs that

support state and local governments, tribes, and schools.

EERE oversees and supports the research and infrastructure

of the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly

National Renewable Energy Laboratory).

EERE Appropriations

EERE is generally funded by the annual Energy and Water

Development and Related Agencies (EWD) appropriations

bill. The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and

Extensions Act, 2025 (P.L. 119-4) was signed by President

Trump on March 15, 2025, providing annual appropriations

for FY2025 at the FY2024 level for nearly all accounts, or

$3.460 billion for EERE (Division D of the Consolidated

Appropriations Act, 2024; P.L. 118-42).

In addition, EERE received funding through the

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58).

IIJA provided a total of $16.264 billion in additional

emergency appropriations for EERE, of which $1.945

billion is for FY2026 (see Table 1).

EERE also received $17.962 billion in additional funding

through P.L. 117-169 (known as the Inflation Reduction

Act of 2022) in FY2022, expiring at the end of FY2026,

FY2027, FY2029, or FY2031, depending on the provision.

(Prior year funding; not shown in Table 1.)

Executive Branch Actions

For FY2026, the Trump Administration requested $888

million for EERE, a 74.3% decrease versus FY2025

enacted of $3.460 billion. The FY2026 request also

proposed funding one particular EERE program,

Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), at $15

million in a new appropriations account, in addition to the

EERE money.

Overall, DOE’s stated goal for EERE funding is to

“advance energy dominance.” The President’s budget

request states that EERE will support work to repeal energy

efficiency standards. The request includes goals for

domestic supply chains of critical materials and

components, modernization of the electric grid, promoting

affordability and consumer choice in home appliances,

research focused on key outcomes related to energy

affordability, and other purposes.

The President’s budget request for FY2026 proposed

appropriations bill language to enact rescissions of $2.315

billion of the IIJA-appropriated funds allocated to EERE.

On November 20, 2025, DOE reorganized EERE’s

functions into a new Office of Critical Minerals and Energy

Innovation.

Legislative Actions

The FY2026 EERE appropriation was enacted on January

23, 2026, as part of the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy

and Water Development; and Interior and Environment

Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 6938, P.L. 119-74). The act

funds EERE at $3.1 billion, applying a transfer of $1.150

billion in unobligated balances appropriated in IIJA, as

directed in Section 311(c) of Division B, for a net EERE

appropriation of $1.950 billion. The funds to be transferred

from IIJA include $393.9 million in EERE appropriations

from Division J of IIJA, among other amounts from other

DOE offices. The act does not fund MESC as a separate

account as in the President’s request. The explanatory

statement for Division B of H.R. 6938, the enacted

measure, per Section 4 of the act, allocates monies to the

accounts and subaccounts as shown in Table 1. The act

does not fulfill the President’s request to rescind monies

from IIJA.

The explanatory statement for Division B of H.R. 6938

incorporates, by reference, the language in H.Rept. 119213, where such language has not otherwise been

superseded. H.Rept. 119-213 was attached to the Housepassed H.R. 4553, the Energy and Water Development and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026, which would

have funded EERE at $1.83 billion, keeping MESC

activities within EERE. The House-passed bill was placed

on the legislative calendar in the Senate on September 10,

2025, but was not further taken up. (Not shown in Table 1.)

In the Senate, Title III of S. 3293, the Energy and Water

Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,

2026—referred to the Committee on Appropriations on

December 1, 2025—would have specified $3.287 billion in

the EERE account, $1.0598 billion of which would have

been a transfer of amounts previously appropriated in IIJA

to carry out Section 40308, Regional Direct Air Capture

Hubs. S. 3293 also would have specified $19.0 million for

MESC as a separate account. (Not shown in Table 1).

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Table 1. Appropriations: EERE and MESC Accounts, FY2025 and FY2026

(in millions of dollars)

Account (in italics) and Program Activitya

EERE, total budget authority

Sustainable Transportation and Fuels

Vehicle Technologies

Bioenergy Technologies

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

Renewable Energy

Solar Energy

Wind Energy

Water Power

Geothermal Technologies

Renewable Energy Grid Integration

Buildings and Industry

Advanced Manufacturing

Building Technologies

State and Community Energy

Programs

Weatherization

State Energy Program

Local Government Energy Program

Energy Future Grants

Manufacturing and Energy Supply

Chains

Federal Energy Management Program

Corporate Support

Transfers of unobligated IIJA balances to EERE

MESC

Total, all accounts, net of transfers to EERE

FY2025

IIJA

Enactedb

FY2025

Annual

Enacted

FY2026

IIJA

Enactedb

FY2026

Request

FY2026

Annual

Enacted

1,945.0

1,440.0

1,240.0c

—

200.0

—

—

—

—

—

—

505.0

250.0d

255.0f

—

3,460.0

581.7

240.0

305.0

36.7

969.6

41.9

29.8

300.0

487.9

110.0

921.6

774.0

147.6

432.1

1,945.0

1,440.0

1,240.0c

—

200.0

—

—

—

—

—

—

505.0

250.0d

255.0f

—

888.0

95.0

25.0

70.0

—

240.0

—

—

90.0

150.0

—

170.0

150.0

20.0

—

3,100.0

802.0

397.0

245.0

160.0

690.0

220.0

100.0

220.0

150.0

—

678.0

390.0e

288.0

435.0

—

—

—

—

—

366.0

66.0

0.1

—

19.0

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

369.0

66.0

—

—

17.0

—

—

—

—

1,945.0

43.0

493.0

—

—

3,460.0

—

—

—

—

1,945.0

—

383.0

—

15.0

903.0

25.0

453.0

-1,150.0

—

1,950.0

Sources: P.L. 117-58 (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; IIJA); P.L. 119-4; DOE FY2026 Congressional Justification, DOE/CF-0215, vol. 4;

P.L. 119-74 and explanatory statement for Division B of H.R. 6938 (119th Congress); and DOE FY2026 Budget Justification: Statistical Tables.

Notes: Columns may not sum due to rounding. EERE = Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; MESC = Office of Manufacturing and Energy

Supply Chains. See text regarding rescissions of IIJA funding proposed in the President’s Budget Request FY2026.

a. Subaccount names in bold are as given in explanatory statement for Division B of H.R. 6938.

b. The placement of IIJA funding in the subaccounts (rows) follows DOE’s FY2023 Congressional Budget Request, DOE/CF-0184, vol. 4. The

IIJA funding for EERE was not implemented by EERE in every case. See other notes to this table.

c. Of this amount, $1,200 million of funding is being executed in MESC: Battery Material Processing Grants (IIJA §40207(b)) and Battery

Manufacturing and Recycling Grants (IIJA §40207(c)).

d. Of this amount, $100 million is for IIJA §40314 activities, which DOE calls the Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing Recycling RD&D Program,

and $150 million is being executed within MESC in the Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program (IIJA §40209).

e. Equals the sum of two lines in the explanatory statement for Division B of H.R. 6938: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies

(recommendation of $185 million) and Industrial Technologies (recommendation of $205 million).

f.

Of this amount, $100 million is being executed in the Office of State and Community Energy Programs as Energy Efficiency Improvements

and Renewable Improvements at Public School Facilities, and a further $110 million in MESC as (1) Industrial Research and Assessment

Centers (IRACs), authorized in Section 457(b)-(h) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA; P.L. 110-140); and (2)

Implementation Grants for IRACs, authorized in Section 457(i) of EISA—both as amended by IIJA §40521.

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Martin C. Offutt, Analyst in Energy Policy

Lexie Ryan, Analyst in Energy Policy

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