The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to consider, before the Memorial Day recess, an energy tax title on renewable and biofuels tax incentives. In addition, the House Science Committee is working to develop refine legislation that would establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), and promote critical technologies that would promote energy independence and accelerate innovation in energy technologies. The bills, once reported by their respective Committees, will be merged on the House floor and considered as one "energy independence" bill. Of interest to NEPPA will be tax incentives for public power to invest in renewable energy generation and effort to advance certain biomass energy technologies.