1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hydropower Clean Energy Future Act . 2. Confirming that hydropower is an essential renewable resource (a) Sense of Congress on the use of hydropower renewable resources It is the sense of Congress that— (1) hydropower is a renewable resource for purposes of all Federal programs and is an essential source of energy in the United States; and (2) the United States should protect existing hydropower resources and increase substantially the capacity and generation of clean, renewable hydropower resources to address a changing climate and improve environmental quality in the United States. (b) Modifying definitions of renewable energy To include hydropower (1) Energy Policy Act of 2005 Section 203 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15852 ) is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by amending paragraphs (1) through (3) to read as follows: (1) Not less than 20 percent in fiscal years 2024 through 2025. (2) Not less than 23 percent in fiscal years 2026 through 2027. (3) Not less than 25 percent in fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter.