Businesses Race for U.S. Climate Incentives

The kinds of skills needed to oversee large-scale demonstration projects such as the ones the legislation will be funding are different than those needed to monitor research and development, which is what the Energy Department is more used to, said Hoyu Chong, a senior policy analyst at Washington, D.C., think tank Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

It is “hard to administer and staff up for such a big effort so quickly,” she said.