I 
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 Depart-
ment 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. MI-
CHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. MCNERNEY, and Ms. HERRERA 
BEUTLER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee 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 estab-
lish 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Better Energy Storage 
Technology Act of 2018’’ or the ‘‘BEST Act of 2018’’. 
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SEC. 2. GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RELAT-
ING TO ENERGY STORAGE COMPETITIVE-
NESS. 
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 ac-
tivities under this section, the Secretary shall coordi-
nate the activities with— 
‘‘(A) appropriate Federal agencies, includ-
ing the Department of Transportation and the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and 
‘‘(B) in order 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 programs 
established under subsections (c), (f), and (g) 
that support research and development nec-
essary for demonstration projects under sub-
section (i)(5); and 
‘‘(B) align specific activities carried out 
under the program established under subsection 
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(c) with priorities identified through direct con-
sultations between— 
‘‘(i) the Department; 
‘‘(ii) national laboratories; 
‘‘(iii) traditional end-users, such as 
electric utilities; and 
‘‘(iv) potential end-users of new gen-
erations of energy storage systems.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(5) PHASE 2 OF GRID-SCALE ENERGY STOR-
AGE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than Sep-
tember 30, 2028, as part of the program estab-
lished 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 to further the development of 
different technologies that ultimately could— 
‘‘(i) demonstrate that grid-scale en-
ergy storage technologies can be commer-
cially deployed; 
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‘‘(ii) be deployed at an installed en-
ergy capital cost, for the complete grid-in-
tegrated energy storage system, of less 
than $100 per kWh; 
‘‘(iii) have a minimum of 1 full deep 
charge and discharge cycle per day; 
‘‘(iv) have a minimum storage dura-
tion of 4 hours; and 
‘‘(v) have a lifetime of at least 20 
years or at least 8,000 cycles of discharge 
at full output. 
‘‘(C) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated $45,000,000 to carry out this para-
graph, to remain available until expended.’’. 
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