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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5610 

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 25, 2018 

Mr. KNIGHT (for himself, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 

CURBELO of Florida, Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 

CALVERT, Ms. KAPTUR, Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California, Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. MCNERNEY, and Ms. HERRERA

BEUTLER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 

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 ‘‘Better Energy Storage 

5 Technology Act of 2018’’ or the ‘‘BEST Act of 2018’’. 


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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) in order to advance the development 

16 of commercially viable energy storage systems, 

17 members of private industry. 

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

19 ‘‘(A) establish subgoals for the programs 

20 established under subsections (c), (f), and (g) 

21 that support research and development nec22 essary for demonstration projects under sub23 section (i)(5); and 

24 ‘‘(B) align specific activities carried out 

25 under the program established under subsection 


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1 (c) with priorities identified through direct con2 sultations between— 

3 ‘‘(i) the Department; 

4 ‘‘(ii) national laboratories; 

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

6 electric utilities; and 

7 ‘‘(iv) potential end-users of new gen8 erations of energy storage systems.’’; and 

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

10 following: 

11 ‘‘(5) PHASE 2 OF GRID-SCALE ENERGY STOR12 AGE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— 

13 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than Sep14 tember 30, 2028, as part of the program estab15 lished under subsection (c), the Secretary shall, 

16 to the maximum extent practicable, enter into 

17 agreements to carry out not fewer than 3 grid18 scale energy storage demonstration projects. 

19 ‘‘(B) OBJECTIVES.—Each demonstration 

20 project carried out under subparagraph (A) 

21 shall be designed to further the development of 

22 different technologies that ultimately could— 

23 ‘‘(i) demonstrate that grid-scale en24 ergy storage technologies can be commer25 cially deployed; 


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1 ‘‘(ii) be deployed at an installed en2 ergy capital cost, for the complete grid-in3 tegrated energy storage system, of less 

4 than $100 per kWh; 

5 ‘‘(iii) have a minimum of 1 full deep 

6 charge and discharge cycle per day; 

7 ‘‘(iv) have a minimum storage dura8 tion of 4 hours; and 

9 ‘‘(v) have a lifetime of at least 20 

10 years or at least 8,000 cycles of discharge 

11 at full output. 

12 ‘‘(C) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA13 TIONS.—There are authorized to be appro14 priated $45,000,000 to carry out this para15 graph, to remain available until expended.’’. 

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