Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Transmission, Distribution and Storage: Grid Integration

5.3.7 Energy Storage

LPDD Recommendation: “States should adopt new laws or regulatory policies to create additional flexibility for how to classify energy storage projects for purposes of ratepayer recovery, or other means of rewarding energy storage initiatives, to facilitate greater integration of renewable energy into the grid.”

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Maryland’s Energy Storage Pilot Program

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

Maryland SB 573 (2019) creates an energy storage pilot program in Maryland.

DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies

Outlines a Department-wide strategy to accelerate innovation across a range of storage technologies based on three concepts: Innovate Here, Make Here, Deploy Everywhere.

New Hampshire’s HB 715 (2020)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires the PUC to find better payment model for energy storage companies that help utilities avoid transmission and distribution costs.

Virginia’s Clean Economy Act, SB 851 (2020)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires two large utilities to close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045 and 2050, and to acquire 3,100,000 megawatts of energy storage capacity.

Connecticut’s HB 5002 (2019)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Authorized the electric distribution utilities to own and rate-base wholesale storage generation assets for the first time since electric restructuring was authorized in 1998.

Utah’s SB 115

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, State Public Utility Commissions

Directed the Utah Public Service Commission to authorize certain funds for “innovative utility programs” designed to investigate, among other options, energy storage technology.

Massachusetts’ Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage program

Jurisdiction: State Agencies

Provide $20 million in grants to energy storage projects that test various, multi-use business cases for energy storage.

Hawaii’s Major Project Interim Recovery Mechanism

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions

Incentivizes utilities to invest in infrastructure that enables renewable generation by allowing utilities to place those costs into customer rates outside of a general rate case.

NJ’s A3723

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Sets New Jersey’s energy storage target at 2,000 MW by 2030.

Oregon’s HB 2193

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires electric companies with at least 25,000 retail customers to produce at least one energy storage system with at least 5 MWh of energy, to be operational by January 2020.