49 U.S.C. § 47140 — Meeting current and future energy power demand

(a) In General. The Secretary of Transportation must establish a program under which the Secretary will: encourage every public-use airport sponsor to do airport planning that assesses the airport's current and future energy power needs — including heating and cooling, on-road airport vehicles and ground support equipment, gate electrification, electric aircraft charging, and vehicles that move passengers and employees between the airport and nearby facilities or an intermodal surface transportation facility — and assesses the airport's existing energy infrastructure, including base load and backup power, against those needs; encourage airport development that improves energy efficiency, increases peak-load savings, and meets those future power demands; and repay the airport sponsor for costs incurred doing that assessment.

(b) Grants. The Secretary must make grants, from funds under section 48103, to airport sponsors that have completed the subsection (a)(1) assessment, to: acquire or build equipment that improves the airport's energy efficiency; and carry out the airport-development project described in subsection (a)(1)(B).

(c) Application. To be eligible for a grant, the sponsor of a public-use airport must submit an application — at the time, in the manner, and with the information the Secretary requires — including a certification that requesting the grant is not causing any safety projects to be deferred.