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IND-49 / Energy, environment and communities

Sell electricity from alternate-energy and cogeneration facilities

Sell or authorize contractor sale of qualifying generation to utilities and credit proceeds to specified energy accounts.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-49 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of military department

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Qualifying energy/cogeneration facility or land under jurisdiction
  • Prices/terms consistent with applicable utility law
  • Congressional notice for funded construction

Limits & exclusions

  • Not general commercial power enterprise authority
  • Geothermal receipts split50/50 with installation special account under statute

Funding conditions

  • Receipts to energy appropriation; construction uses subject to appropriations and14day notification; geothermal installation uses restricted.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation energy manager
  • Service energy office / ASD(EI&E)

Resources

  • Installation utility/O&M accounts or authorized project funds

Approval

  • Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense approval when statute requires
    Office profile

Execution

  • DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate
  • Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Utility / energy-service company
  • DOE technical assistance; State utility regulator where required

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.