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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 re-
ferred 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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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Electricity Storage In-
novation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 975 of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16315) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘SEC. 975. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIA-
TIVE. 
‘‘(a) INITIATIVE.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry 
out a research initiative, to be known as the Elec-
tricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, to expand 
theoretical and fundamental knowledge to control, 
store, and convert electrical energy to chemical energy 
and the inverse. This initiative shall support sci-
entific inquiry into the practical understanding of 
chemical and physical processes that occur within 
systems involving crystalline and amorphous solids, 
polymers, and organic and aqueous liquids. 
‘‘(2) LEVERAGING.—The Secretary shall leverage 
expertise and resources from the Basic Energy 
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Sciences Program, Advanced Scientific Computing 
Research Program, and Biological and Environ-
mental Research Program within the Office of 
Science, and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Re-
newable Energy, as provided under subsections (b), 
(c), and (d). 
‘‘(3) TEAMS.—The Secretary shall organize ac-
tivities under the Electricity Storage Basic Research 
Initiative 
to 
include 
multidisciplinary 
teams 
leveraging expertise from the National Laboratories, 
universities, and the private sector to the extent prac-
ticable. These multidisciplinary teams shall pursue 
aggressive, milestone-driven basic research goals. The 
Secretary shall provide sufficient resources for those 
teams to achieve those goals over a period of time to 
be determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary is 
authorized to organize additional activities under this 
subsection through Energy Frontier Research Centers, 
Energy Innovation Hubs, or other organizational 
structures. 
‘‘(b) MULTIVALENT SYSTEMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 
of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 
carry out a program to support research needed to 
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bridge scientific barriers and discover knowledge rel-
evant to multivalent ion materials in electric energy 
storage systems. In carrying out activities under this 
subsection, the Director of the Office of Basic Energy 
Sciences shall investigate electrochemical properties 
and the dynamics of materials, including charge 
transfer phenomena and mass transport in materials. 
The Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy shall support translational re-
search, development, and validation of physical con-
cepts developed under this subsection. 
‘‘(2) STANDARD
OF
REVIEW.—The Secretary 
shall review the program activities under this sub-
section to determine the achievement of technical 
milestones. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub-
section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 
activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2020— 
‘‘(i) $50,000,000 from funds within the 
Basic Energy Sciences Program account; 
and 
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‘‘(ii) $25,000,000 from funds within 
the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En-
ergy account. 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 
under this subsection may be obligated or ex-
pended for commercial application of energy 
technology. 
‘‘(c) ELECTROCHEMISTRY MODELING
AND SIMULA-
TION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 
of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 
carry out a program to support research to model and 
simulate organic electrolytes, including their static 
and dynamic electrochemical behavior and phe-
nomena at the molecular and atomic level in 
monovalent and multivalent systems. In carrying out 
activities under this subsection, the Director of the Of-
fice of Basic Energy Sciences shall, in coordination 
with the Associate Director of Advanced Scientific 
Computing Research, support the development of high 
performance computational tools through a joint de-
velopment process to maximize the effectiveness of cur-
rent and projected high performance computing sys-
tems. The Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy shall support translational re-
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search, development, and validation of physical con-
cepts developed under this subsection. 
‘‘(2) STANDARD
OF
REVIEW.—The Secretary 
shall review the program activities under this sub-
section to determine the achievement of technical 
milestones. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub-
section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 
activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2020— 
‘‘(i) $30,000,000 from funds within the 
Basic Energy Sciences Program and Ad-
vanced Scientific Computing Research Pro-
gram accounts; and 
‘‘(ii) $15,000,000 from funds within 
the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En-
ergy account. 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 
under this subsection may be obligated or ex-
pended for commercial application of energy 
technology. 
‘‘(d) MESOSCALE ELECTROCHEMISTRY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, as part 
of the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, 
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carry out a program to support research needed to re-
veal electrochemistry in confined mesoscale spaces, in-
cluding scientific discoveries relevant to bio-electro-
chemistry and electrochemical energy conversion and 
storage in confined spaces and the dynamics of these 
phenomena. In carrying out activities under this sub-
section, the Director of the Office of Basic Energy 
Sciences and the Associate Director of Biological and 
Environmental Research shall investigate phenomena 
of mesoscale electrochemical confinement for the pur-
pose of replicating and controlling new electro-
chemical behavior. The Assistant Secretary for En-
ergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall support 
translational research, development, and validation of 
physical concepts developed under this subsection. 
‘‘(2) STANDARD
OF
REVIEW.—The Secretary 
shall review the program activities under this sub-
section to determine the achievement of technical 
milestones. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to sub-
section (e), there are authorized for carrying out 
activities under this subsection for each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2020— 
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‘‘(i) $20,000,000 from funds within the 
Basic Energy Sciences Program and the Bi-
ological and Environmental Research Pro-
gram accounts; and 
‘‘(ii) $10,000,000 from funds within 
the Energy Efficiency and Renewable En-
ergy account. 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized 
under this subsection may be obligated or ex-
pended for commercial application of energy 
technology. 
‘‘(e) FUNDING.—No additional funds are authorized to 
be appropriated under this section. This section shall be 
carried out using funds otherwise authorized by law.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The item re-
lating to section 975 in the table of contents of such Act 
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 
of Energy of an Electricity Storage Basic Re-
search Initiative. 
JULY 11, 2016 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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