Title: A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America Program. (The program is administered by the Department of Agriculture and provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to farmers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or energy efficiency improvements.)
The bill specifies that energy storage includes electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical storage, for example, provided by battery storage, a grid-enabled water heater, or pumped hydroelectric storage.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2993 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2993

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include 
 energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America 
                                Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2018

Mr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Merkley) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include 
 energy storage as renewable energy under the Rural Energy for America 
                                Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF ENERGY STORAGE AS RENEWABLE ENERGY UNDER RURAL 
              ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM.

    Section 9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 
(7 U.S.C. 8107) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (a) through (g) as 
        subsections (b) through (h), respectively;
            (2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so redesignated) 
        the following:
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Renewable energy.--The term `renewable energy' 
        includes energy storage, including electrochemical, thermal, 
        and mechanical storage, for example, provided by battery 
        storage, a grid-enabled water heater, or pumped hydroelectric 
        storage.
            ``(2) Renewable energy system.--The term `renewable energy 
        system' includes an energy storage component.'';
            (3) in subsection (f) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``(g)'' each place it appears and inserting ``(h)''; and
            (4) in paragraph (2) of subsection (h) (as so 
        redesignated)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``(b)'' and 
                inserting ``(c)''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) by striking ``(b)'' and inserting 
                        ``(c)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``(c)'' and inserting 
                        ``(d)''.
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