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Union Calendar No. 529 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5640 

[Report No. 114–681] 

To provide for the establishment at the Department of Energy of an 

Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 6, 2016 

Mr. SMITH of Texas (for himself, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. 

KNIGHT, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. POSEY, Mr. 

MOOLENAAR, and Mr. BABIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 

JULY 11, 2016 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 6, 2016] 


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A BILL 

To provide for the establishment at the Department of 

Energy of an Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative. 


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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 ‘‘Electricity Storage In5 novation Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIA7 TIVE. 

8 (a) AMENDMENT.—Section 975 of the Energy Policy 

9 Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16315) is amended to read as fol10 lows: 

11 ‘‘SEC. 975. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIA12 TIVE. 

13 ‘‘(a) INITIATIVE.— 

14 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry 

15 out a research initiative, to be known as the Elec16 tricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, to expand 

17 theoretical and fundamental knowledge to control, 

18 store, and convert electrical energy to chemical energy 

19 and the inverse. This initiative shall support sci20 entific inquiry into the practical understanding of 

21 chemical and physical processes that occur within 

22 systems involving crystalline and amorphous solids, 

23 polymers, and organic and aqueous liquids. 

24 ‘‘(2) LEVERAGING.—The Secretary shall leverage 

25 expertise and resources from the Basic Energy 


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1 Sciences Program, Advanced Scientific Computing 

2 Research Program, and Biological and Environ3 mental Research Program within the Office of 

4 Science, and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Re5 newable Energy, as provided under subsections (b), 

6 (c), and (d). 

7 ‘‘(3) TEAMS.—The Secretary shall organize ac8 tivities under the Electricity Storage Basic Research 

9 Initiative to include multidisciplinary teams 

10 leveraging expertise from the National Laboratories, 

11 universities, and the private sector to the extent prac12 ticable. These multidisciplinary teams shall pursue 

13 aggressive, milestone-driven basic research goals. The 

14 Secretary shall provide sufficient resources for those 

15 teams to achieve those goals over a period of time to 

16 be determined by the Secretary. 

17 ‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary is 

18 authorized to organize additional activities under this 

19 subsection through Energy Frontier Research Centers, 

20 Energy Innovation Hubs, or other organizational 

21 structures. 

22 ‘‘(b) MULTIVALENT SYSTEMS.— 

23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 

24 of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 

25 carry out a program to support research needed to 


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1 bridge scientific barriers and discover knowledge rel2 evant to multivalent ion materials in electric energy 

3 storage systems. In carrying out activities under this 

4 subsection, the Director of the Office of Basic Energy 

5 Sciences shall investigate electrochemical properties 

6 and the dynamics of materials, including charge 

7 transfer phenomena and mass transport in materials. 

8 The Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 

9 Renewable Energy shall support translational re10 search, development, and validation of physical con11 cepts developed under this subsection. 

12 ‘‘(2) STANDARD OF REVIEW.—The Secretary 

13 shall review the program activities under this sub14 section to determine the achievement of technical 

15 milestones. 

16 ‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

17 ‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub18 section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 

19 activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 

20 years 2017 through 2020— 

21 ‘‘(i) $50,000,000 from funds within the 

22 Basic Energy Sciences Program account; 

23 and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) $25,000,000 from funds within 

2 the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En3 ergy account. 

4 ‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 

5 under this subsection may be obligated or ex6 pended for commercial application of energy 

7 technology. 

8 ‘‘(c) ELECTROCHEMISTRY MODELING AND SIMULA9 TION.— 

10 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 

11 of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 

12 carry out a program to support research to model and 

13 simulate organic electrolytes, including their static 

14 and dynamic electrochemical behavior and phe15 nomena at the molecular and atomic level in 

16 monovalent and multivalent systems. In carrying out 

17 activities under this subsection, the Director of the Of18 fice of Basic Energy Sciences shall, in coordination 

19 with the Associate Director of Advanced Scientific 

20 Computing Research, support the development of high 

21 performance computational tools through a joint de22 velopment process to maximize the effectiveness of cur23 rent and projected high performance computing sys24 tems. The Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency 

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1 search, development, and validation of physical con2 cepts developed under this subsection. 

3 ‘‘(2) STANDARD OF REVIEW.—The Secretary 

4 shall review the program activities under this sub5 section to determine the achievement of technical 

6 milestones. 

7 ‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

8 ‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub9 section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 

10 activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 

11 years 2017 through 2020— 

12 ‘‘(i) $30,000,000 from funds within the 

13 Basic Energy Sciences Program and Ad14 vanced Scientific Computing Research Pro15 gram accounts; and 

16 ‘‘(ii) $15,000,000 from funds within 

17 the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En18 ergy account. 

19 ‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 

20 under this subsection may be obligated or ex21 pended for commercial application of energy 

22 technology. 

23 ‘‘(d) MESOSCALE ELECTROCHEMISTRY.— 

24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 

25 of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 


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1 carry out a program to support research needed to re2 veal electrochemistry in confined mesoscale spaces, in3 cluding scientific discoveries relevant to bio-electro4 chemistry and electrochemical energy conversion and 

5 storage in confined spaces and the dynamics of these 

6 phenomena. In carrying out activities under this sub7 section, the Director of the Office of Basic Energy 

8 Sciences and the Associate Director of Biological and 

9 Environmental Research shall investigate phenomena 

10 of mesoscale electrochemical confinement for the pur11 pose of replicating and controlling new electro12 chemical behavior. The Assistant Secretary for En13 ergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall support 

14 translational research, development, and validation of 

15 physical concepts developed under this subsection. 

16 ‘‘(2) STANDARD OF REVIEW.—The Secretary 

17 shall review the program activities under this sub18 section to determine the achievement of technical 

19 milestones. 

20 ‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

21 ‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub22 section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 

23 activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 

24 years 2017 through 2020— 


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1 ‘‘(i) $20,000,000 from funds within the 

2 Basic Energy Sciences Program and the Bi3 ological and Environmental Research Pro4 gram accounts; and 

5 ‘‘(ii) $10,000,000 from funds within 

6 the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En7 ergy account. 

8 ‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 

9 under this subsection may be obligated or ex10 pended for commercial application of energy 

11 technology. 

12 ‘‘(e) FUNDING.—No additional funds are authorized to 

13 be appropriated under this section. This section shall be 

14 carried out using funds otherwise authorized by law.’’. 

15 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The item re16 lating to section 975 in the table of contents of such Act 

17 is amended to read as follows: 

‘‘Sec. 975. Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 529 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5640 

[Report No. 114–681] 

A BILL 

To provide for the establishment at the Department 

search Initiative. of Energy of an Electricity Storage Basic ReJULY 11, 2016 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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