; or (bb) less stringent environmental standards than the United States; and (II) the environmental impacts that would occur if— (aa) the Bank declined to provide financing; and (bb) a country with greater emission intensity or less stringent environmental standards than the United States provided financing to develop the project. (viii) Publication of terms Not later than 18 months after the commencement of construction on a project involving eligible technologies, the Office shall make publicly available the terms of the contract for the project. (ix) Definitions In this subparagraph: (I) Early-stage project technical assistance The term early-stage project technical assistance includes— (aa) feasibility studies; (bb) resource evaluations; (cc) project appraisal and costing; (dd) pilot projects; (ee) commercial support, such as trade missions, reverse trade missions, technical workshops, international buyer projects, and international partner searchers to link supplies to projects; (ff) technical assistance and other guidance to improve the local regulatory environment and market frameworks to encourage transparent competition and enhance energy security; and (gg) long-term energy sector planning. (II) Eligible technology The term eligible technology means— (aa) renewable energy systems; (bb) hydrogen fuel cell technology for residential, energy, industrial, or transportation applications; (cc) advanced nuclear energy facilities; (dd) carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration technologies; (ee) efficient electrical generation, transmission, and distribution technologies; (ff) pollution control equipment; (gg) energy storage technologies for residential, industrial, and transportation applications; (hh) technologies and systems for reducing potent greenhouse gas pollutants, including methane leakage from natural gas transmission and distribution infrastructure; (ii) manufacturing and deployment of nuclear supply components for advanced nuclear reactors; (jj) system-level energy management solutions