1. Short title; findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the E. Cooper Brown Ocean Clean Energy Act of 2019 . (b) Findings related to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Congress finds the following with respect to ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC): (1) OTEC is a clean energy technology that produces energy by using temperature differentials between cooler deep and warm surface seawaters. (2) OTEC technology has the potential to produce massive levels of clean energy to generate electricity. (3) Deployment of OTEC technology will reduce greenhouse gases and reliance on fossil fuels. (4) In tropical and subtropical remote locations, electricity is expensive to generate. Power generated from OTEC technology will be inexpensive when compared to the unit cost of power from a traditional oil based electrical generation system. (5) OTEC generated energy would reduce operational costs for remote military bases such as Kwajalein and Diego Garcia