Energy Storage Goals and Demonstration Projects Act

Energy Storage Goals and Demonstration Projects Act

This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish new goals for its energy storage program and enter into agreements to carry out at least three grid-scale energy storage demonstration projects. (The energy storage program supports the ability of the United States to remain globally competitive in energy storage systems for electric drive vehicles, stationary applications, and electricity transmission and distribution.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1455 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1455

 To amend the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 
   to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish new goals for the 
   Department of Energy relating to energy storage and to carry out 
       certain demonstration projects relating to energy storage.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 28, 2017

Mr. Flake (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 
   to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish new goals for the 
   Department of Energy relating to energy storage and to carry out 
       certain demonstration projects relating to energy storage.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Energy Storage Goals and 
Demonstration Projects Act''.

SEC. 2. GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RELATING TO ENERGY STORAGE 
              COMPETITIVENESS.

    The United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 (42 
U.S.C. 17231) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
    ``(d) Coordination; Research Goals.--
            ``(1) Coordination.--In carrying out the activities under 
        this section, the Secretary shall coordinate the activities 
        with--
                    ``(A) appropriate Federal agencies, including the 
                Department of Transportation and the Federal Energy 
                Regulatory Commission; and
                    ``(B) to advance the development of commercially 
                viable energy storage systems, members of private 
                industry.
            ``(2) Research goals.--The Secretary shall--
                    ``(A) establish subgoals for the program 
                established under subsection (c) that support the 
                conduct of demonstration projects under subsection 
                (i)(5); and
                    ``(B) align specific activities carried out under 
                the program established under subsection (c) with 
                priorities identified through direct consultations 
                between--
                            ``(i) the Department;
                            ``(ii) national laboratories;
                            ``(iii) traditional end-users, such as 
                        electric utilities; and
                            ``(iv) potential end-users of new 
                        generations of energy storage systems.''; and
            (2) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Phase 2 of grid-scale energy storage demonstration 
        projects.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than September 30, 
                2028, as part of the program established under 
                subsection (c), the Secretary shall, to the maximum 
                extent practicable, enter into agreements to carry out 
                not fewer than 3 grid-scale energy storage 
                demonstration projects.
                    ``(B) Objectives.--Each demonstration project 
                carried out under subparagraph (A) shall be designed--
                            ``(i) to demonstrate that grid-scale energy 
                        storage technologies can be commercially 
                        deployed;
                            ``(ii) to be deployed at an installed 
                        energy capital cost of less than $100 per kWh;
                            ``(iii) to have a minimum of 1 full charge 
                        and discharge cycle per day; and
                            ``(iv) to have a lifetime of at least 5,000 
                        cycles of discharge at full output.''.
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