---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2919"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2919"
heading: "Department of Defense participation in programs for management of energy demand or reduction of energy usage during peak periods"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2919"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 173 — Energy Security"
  - "Subchapter I — Energy Security Activities"
---

# §2919. Department of Defense participation in programs for management of energy demand or reduction of energy usage during peak periods

- (a) **Participation in Demand Response or Load Management Programs.—** The Secretary of Defense, the Secretaries of the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8), the heads of the [Defense Agencies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), and the heads of other instrumentalities of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense are authorized to participate in demand response programs for the management of energy demand or the reduction of energy usage during peak periods conducted by any of the following parties:
  - (1) An electric utility.
  - (2) An independent system operator.
  - (3) A [State](/usc/10/2815a.md?p=g-2) [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1).
  - (4) A third party entity (such as a demand response aggregator or curtailment service provider) implementing demand response programs on behalf of an electric utility, independent system operator, or [State](/usc/10/2815a.md?p=g-2) [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1).
- (b) **Treatment of Certain Financial Incentives.—** Financial incentives received from an entity specified in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be—
  - (1) received as a cost reduction in the utility bill for a [facility](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2); or
  - (2) deposited into the [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) established under [subsection (c)](#c) for use, to the extent provided for in an appropriations Act, by the military [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), [Defense Agency](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), or instrumentality receiving such financial incentive for energy management initiatives.
- (c) **Energy Savings Financial Incentives Fund.—** There is established in the Treasury a [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) to be known as the “Energy Savings Financial Incentives [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6)”. The [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) shall consist of any amount deposited in the [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) pursuant to [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2) and amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) by law.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2843(a), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2681.)