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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. 

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 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Storage Goals 

5 and Demonstration Projects Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RELAT2 ING TO ENERGY STORAGE COMPETITIVE3 NESS. 

4 The United States Energy Storage Competitiveness 

5 Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17231) is amended— 

6 (1) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the 

7 following: 

8 ‘‘(d) COORDINATION; RESEARCH GOALS.— 

9 ‘‘(1) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the ac10 tivities under this section, the Secretary shall coordi11 nate the activities with— 

12 ‘‘(A) appropriate Federal agencies, includ13 ing the Department of Transportation and the 

14 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and 

15 ‘‘(B) to advance the development of com16 mercially viable energy storage systems, mem17 bers of private industry. 

18 ‘‘(2) RESEARCH GOALS.—The Secretary shall— 

19 ‘‘(A) establish subgoals for the program es20 tablished under subsection (c) that support the 

21 conduct of demonstration projects under sub22 section (i)(5); and 

23 ‘‘(B) align specific activities carried out 

24 under the program established under subsection 

25 (c) with priorities identified through direct con26 sultations between— 


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1 ‘‘(i) the Department; 

2 ‘‘(ii) national laboratories; 

3 ‘‘(iii) traditional end-users, such as 

4 electric utilities; and 

5 ‘‘(iv) potential end-users of new gen6 erations of energy storage systems.’’; and 

7 (2) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the 

8 following: 

9 ‘‘(5) PHASE 2 OF GRID-SCALE ENERGY STOR10 AGE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— 

11 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than Sep12 tember 30, 2028, as part of the program estab13 lished under subsection (c), the Secretary shall, 

14 to the maximum extent practicable, enter into 

15 agreements to carry out not fewer than 3 grid16 scale energy storage demonstration projects. 

17 ‘‘(B) OBJECTIVES.—Each demonstration 

18 project carried out under subparagraph (A) 

19 shall be designed— 

20 ‘‘(i) to demonstrate that grid-scale en21 ergy storage technologies can be commer22 cially deployed; 

23 ‘‘(ii) to be deployed at an installed en24 ergy capital cost of less than $100 per 

25 kWh; 


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1 ‘‘(iii) to have a minimum of 1 full 

2 charge and discharge cycle per day; and 

3 ‘‘(iv) to have a lifetime of at least 

4 5,000 cycles of discharge at full output.’’. 

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