OCED Elimination Act

The OCED Elimination Act would abolish the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) and repeal the related statutory authority found in Section 41201 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The bill’s text is concise and does not provide any replacement office, transition plan, or guidance on how OCED’s duties, programs, or funding would be redistributed or terminated. As a result, the bill would remove the dedicated mechanism for certain clean energy demonstration activities unless Congress later provides alternate authority or a new structure within DOE. In short, the bill aims to end OCED and unwind the IIJA provision that created or empowered it, without detailing how ongoing projects or future demonstrations would proceed under a new arrangement.