[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[S. 2048 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2048

    To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a demonstration 
 initiative focused on the development of long-duration energy storage 
     technologies, including a joint program to be established in 
  consultation with the Secretary of Defense, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 28 (legislative day, June 27), 2019

 Mr. King (for himself and Ms. McSally) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a demonstration 
 initiative focused on the development of long-duration energy storage 
     technologies, including a joint program to be established in 
  consultation with the Secretary of Defense, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Joint Long-Term Storage Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to facilitate the development of long-duration energy 
        storage technologies;
            (2) to increase the commercial viability of long-duration 
        energy storage technologies; and
            (3) to increase the energy resilience and energy security 
        and national security of the United States through the use of 
        long-duration energy storage technologies.

SEC. 3. LONG-DURATION ENERGY STORAGE DEMONSTRATION INITIATIVE.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Director of arpa-e.--The term ``Director of ARPA-E'' 
        means the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Director of 
        the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy.
            (2) Director of estcp.--The term ``Director of ESTCP'' 
        means the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of 
        the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program of 
        the Department of Defense.
            (3) Directors.--The term ``Directors'' means the Director 
        of ARPA-E and the Director of ESTCP, acting jointly.
            (4) Initiative.--The term ``Initiative'' means the 
        demonstration initiative established under subsection (b).
            (5) Joint program.--The term ``Joint Program'' means the 
        joint program established under subsection (f).
    (b) Establishment.--Not later than 200 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of ARPA-E shall establish a 
demonstration initiative composed of demonstration projects focused on 
the development of long-duration energy storage technologies.
    (c) Goals.--The goals of the Initiative shall be--
            (1) to demonstrate the potential benefits of long-duration 
        energy storage to--
                    (A) the resilience of the electricity grid, 
                including the security of critical infrastructure; and
                    (B) efficient use of the electricity grid through--
                            (i) peak load reduction; or
                            (ii) avoided investments in traditional 
                        grid infrastructure;
            (2) to increase the commercial viability of long-duration 
        energy storage technologies;
            (3)(A) to identify the range of services that long-duration 
        energy storage technologies can provide to the electricity 
        grid; and
            (B) to the maximum extent practicable, to quantify the 
        value of those services;
            (4) to investigate challenges to the greater deployment of 
        long-duration energy storage technologies;
            (5) to identify and develop a range of technology types; 
        and
            (6) to improve the integration of energy storage and the 
        grid.
    (d) Selection of Projects.--To the maximum extent practicable, in 
selecting demonstration projects to participate in the Initiative, the 
Director of ARPA-E shall--
            (1) ensure a range of technology types;
            (2) ensure regional diversity among projects, including 
        appropriate representation of rural areas;
            (3) consider microgrid, islanded, or off-grid applications; 
        and
            (4) ensure that any project selected is designed to achieve 
        1 or more of the goals described in subsection (c).
    (e) Cooperation With Electric Utilities.--A demonstration project 
selected to participate in the Initiative may be carried out in 
cooperation with the electric utility that owns the grid facilities in 
the electricity control area in which the demonstration project is 
carried out.
    (f) Joint Program.--
            (1) Establishment.--As part of the Initiative, the Director 
        of ARPA-E, in consultation with the Director of ESTCP, shall 
        establish within the Department of Energy a joint program to 
        carry out projects--
                    (A) to demonstrate promising long-duration energy 
                storage technologies at different scales; and
                    (B) to help new, innovative long-duration energy 
                storage technologies become commercially viable.
            (2) Memorandum of understanding.--Not later than 200 days 
        after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of ARPA-E 
        shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the 
        Director of ESTCP to jointly administer the Joint Program.
            (3) Infrastructure.--In carrying out the Joint Program, the 
        Directors shall--
                    (A) use existing test-bed infrastructure at--
                            (i) Department of Energy facilities; and
                            (ii) Department of Defense installations; 
                        and
                    (B) develop new infrastructure for identified 
                projects, if appropriate.
            (4) Goals and metrics.--The Directors shall develop goals 
        and metrics for technological progress under the Joint Program 
        consistent with energy resilience and energy security policies.
            (5) Selection of projects.--
                    (A) In general.--To the maximum extent practicable, 
                in selecting projects to participate in the Joint 
                Program, the Directors shall--
                            (i) ensure that projects are carried out 
                        under conditions that represent a variety of 
                        environments with different physical conditions 
                        and market constraints; and
                            (ii) ensure an appropriate balance of--
                                    (I) larger, higher-cost projects; 
                                and
                                    (II) smaller, lower-cost projects.
                    (B) Priority.--In carrying out the Joint Program, 
                the Directors shall give priority to demonstration 
                projects that--
                            (i) make available to the public key 
                        engineering and field data that will accelerate 
                        deployment of long-duration energy storage 
                        technologies; and
                            (ii) will be carried out in the field.
            (6) States and private sector entities.--In carrying out 
        the Joint Program, the Directors shall encourage--
                    (A) States to become laboratories of innovation in 
                the development of long-duration energy storage 
                technologies; and
                    (B) collaboration between participants in the Joint 
                Program, States, and other appropriate private sector 
                entities.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the Initiative--
            (1) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
            (2) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; and
            (3) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DAYS PROGRAM OF THE 
              ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY--ENERGY.

    Section 5012(o) of the America COMPETES Act (42 U.S.C. 16538(o)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (E) 
                as clauses (i) through (v), respectively, and indenting 
                appropriately;
                    (B) by striking the paragraph designation and 
                heading and all that follows through ``paragraphs (4) 
                and (5)'' in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so 
                redesignated) and inserting the following:
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to paragraph (4)''; and
                    (C) by inserting after clause (v) (as so 
                redesignated) the following:
                    ``(B) DAYS program.--There is authorized to be 
                appropriated to carry out the Duration Addition to 
                electricitY Storage program (also known as the `DAYS 
                program') of ARPA-E $60,000,000 for each of fiscal 
                years 2020 through 2024.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
        (2)(A)''.
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