PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL ENERGY MODELING SYSTEM.

SEC. 40417. PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL ENERGY MODELING SYSTEM. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall develop a plan to identify any need or opportunity to update or further the capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System, including with respect to— (1) treating energy demand endogenously; (2) increased natural gas usage and increased market penetration of renewable energy; (3) flexible operating modes of nuclear power plants, such as load following and frequency control; (4) tools to model multiple-output energy systems that provide hydrogen, high-value heat, electricity, and chemical synthesis services, including interactions of those energy systems with the electricity grids, pipeline networks, and the broader economy; (5) demand response and improved representation of energy storage, including long-duration storage, in capacity expansion models; (6) electrification, particularly with respect to the transportation, industrial, and buildings sectors; (7) increasing model resolution to represent all hours of the year and all electricity generators; (8) wholesale electricity market design and the appropriate valuation of all services that support the reliability of electricity grids, such as— (A) battery storage; and (B) synthetic inertia from grid-tied inverters; (9) economic modeling of the role of energy efficiency, demand response, electricity storage, and a variety of distributed generation technologies; (10) the production, transport, use, and storage of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and hydrogen carriers; (11) greater flexibility in— (A) the modeling of the environmental impacts of electricity systems, such as— (i) emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants; and (ii) the use of land and water resources; and (B) the ability to support climate modeling, such as the climate modeling performed by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the Office of Science of the Department; (12) technologies that are in an early stage of commercial deployment and have been identified by the Secretary as candidates for large-scale demonstration projects, such as— (A) carbon capture, transport, use, and storage from any source or economic sector; (B) direct air capture; (C) hydrogen production, including via electrolysis; (D) synthetic and biogenic hydrocarbon liquid and gaseous fuels; (E) supercritical carbon dioxide combustion turbines; (F) industrial fuel cell and hydrogen combustion equipment; and (G) industrial electric boilers; (13) increased and improved data sources and tools, including— (A) the establishment of technology and cost baselines, including technology learning rates; (B) economic and employment impacts of energy system policies and energy prices on households, as a function of household income and region; and (C) the use of behavioral economics to inform demand modeling in all sectors; and (14) striving to migrate toward a single, consistent, and open-source modeling platform, and increasing open access to model systems, data, and outcomes, for— (A) disseminating reference scenarios that can be transparently and broadly replicated; and (B) promoting the development of the researcher and analyst workforce needed to continue the development and validation of improved energy system models in the future.