Title: BEST Act of 2018
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Better Energy Storage Technology Act of 2018 or the BEST Act of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish new goals for its energy storage program and enter into agreements to carry out at least three grid-scale energy storage demonstration projects. (The energy storage program supports the ability of the United States to remain globally competitive in energy storage systems for electric drive vehicles, stationary applications, and electricity transmission and distribution.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5610 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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''.

SEC. 2. GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RELATING TO ENERGY STORAGE 
              COMPETITIVENESS.

    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 activities under 
        this section, the Secretary shall coordinate the activities 
        with--
                    ``(A) appropriate Federal agencies, including 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 necessary for 
                demonstration projects under subsection (i)(5); and
                    ``(B) align specific activities carried out under 
                the program established under subsection (c) with 
                priorities identified through direct consultations 
                between--
                            ``(i) the Department;
                            ``(ii) national laboratories;
                            ``(iii) traditional end-users, such as 
                        electric utilities; and
                            ``(iv) potential end-users of new 
                        generations of energy storage systems.''; and
            (2) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Phase 2 of grid-scale energy storage demonstration 
        projects.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than September 30, 
                2028, as part of the program established 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 energy 
                        storage technologies can be commercially 
                        deployed;
                            ``(ii) be deployed at an installed energy 
                        capital cost, for the complete grid-integrated 
                        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 duration 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 appropriations.--There are 
                authorized to be appropriated $45,000,000 to carry out 
                this paragraph, to remain available until expended.''.
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