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Energy Storage

MCLI 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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Resource Congress

Proposed Energy Storage Promotion and Deployment Act of 2015

Under the proposed Energy Storage Promotion and Deployment Act of 2015, large retail electric utilities would have needed to meet at least 1 percent of their peak demand from storage by 2021. By the e...
Resource Congress

Proposed Energy Storage for Grid Resilience and Modernization Act of 2016

The proposed Energy Storage for Grid Resilience and Modernization Act of 2016 would have given a 30% tax credit to energy storage, equivalent to renewable energy tax support.
Example States and State Governments

Utah’s SB 115

SB 115 directed the Utah Public Service Commission to authorize certain funds for “innovative utility programs” designed to investigate, among other options, energy storage technology. The commission ...
Example States and State Governments

Maryland’s Energy Storage Pilot Program

Maryland SB 573 (2019) creates an energy storage pilot program in Maryland. The program requires the state’s four investor owned utilities to issue two solicitations for energy storage projects in 202...
Example States and State Governments

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

Virginia’s Clean Econony Act (SB 851) requires Dominion Virginia (the state’s dominant utility) and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. to supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and t...
Example States and State Governments

Nevada’s SB 204

Nevada’s SB 204 (2017) requires the state’s Public Utilities Commission to study whether it should establish a program mandating that the state’s electric utilities produce energy storage systems.
Example States and State Governments

Vermont’s Act 54 (2021) and Responsive Proceeding

In June, 2021, Vermont enacted Act 54, granting the Vermont Utility Commission the authority to adopt rules that integrate storage resources into the grid, where they can act as both sources and sinks...
Example States and State Governments

Maryland’s Energy Storage Grant Program

In May 2022, Maryland enacted a law establishing an Energy Storage System Grant Program to issue grants to individuals and businesses to cover a portion of the costs of energy storage systems installe...
Resource States and State Governments

California’s AB33 (2021)

In September 2021, the California legislature passed AB33, creating low-interest loans and grants for local governments to install energy storage and zero-emission vehicle infrastructure. The bill req...
Example States and State Governments

Massachusetts’ Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage program

In 2017, Massachusetts created a program, Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage, to provide $20 million in grants to energy storage projects that test various, multi-use business cases for energy stor...
Resource Congress

Proposed STORAGE 2013 Act

The proposed STORAGE 2013 Act would have given storage systems a 20 percent investment tax credit for systems above 1-MW/1-MHw and a 30 percent tax credit for smaller 1-kw/5-kWh systems.
Example Public Utilities

NYISO Market Rules for Energy Storage

In September 2020, the New York Independent System Operator announced the final step in a years-long process to open the NYISO’s wholesale energy markets to Energy Storage Resources (ESRs). This devel...
Example Public Utilities

Hawaii’s Major Project Interim Recovery Mechanism

In a 2013 Order, the Hawaii Public Service Commission created the Major Project Interim Recovery Mechanism, which incentivizes utilities to invest in infrastructure that enables renewable generation b...
Resource States and State Governments

Massachusetts’ Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

In August 2022, Massachusetts enacted an “Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind,” which builds on 2019 legislation and helps clarify how the state will meet its climate targets. Key provisions of...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, States Energy Storage Policy

This report identifies and summarizes existing trends in state energy storage policy in support of decarbonization, and contrasts these trends with the preferences of energy storage development firms,...
Example States and State Governments

NY Energy Storage Target

In 2018, the New York Dept. of Public Service issued an Energy Storage Roadmap calling for an energy storage goal of 1.5 GW by 2025. In January 2018, the Public Service Commission issued an Order esta...
Example States and State Governments

Connecticut Public Act 21-53

In June 2021, Connecticut passed legislation establishing a goal of deploying 1,000 MW of energy storage by the end of 2030, making Connecticut the eighth state to set an energy storage target. Under ...
Example States and State Governments

New Hampshire’s HB 715 (2020)

House Bill 715 requires New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission to look into ways to fairly compensate energy storage projects based on the savings those projects can bring to utility companies. T...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon’s HB 2193

Oregon’s HB 2193 (2015) 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...
Example States and State Governments

California’s Energy Storage Mandate

California’s AB 2514 (2010) called on the state to establish an energy storage mandate. California’s Public Utility Commission accordingly approved a 1.3GW storage target for the state to be achieved ...
Resource Local Governments

New York Model Zoning for Battery Storage

NYSERDA published this model law, intended to help New York local government officials adopt legislation and regulations to responsibly accommodate battery energy storage systems in their communities....
Example Public Utilities

Connecticut’s Energy Storage Solutions Program

In January, the Connecticut Public Utility Regulatory Authority launched an energy storage subsidization program, for which both residential and commercial customers may be eligible. The Energy Storag...
Example Local Governments

New York’s “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality” Initiative

The New York City Council approved the “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality” plan in December 2023, a set of citywide zoning changes making it easier to install a variety of distributed energy resources...
Resource Executive Branch

Energy Environ. Sci. Article, Assigning Value to Energy Storage Systems at Multiple Points in an Electrical Grid

Balducci et al., in their article, Assigning Value to Energy Storage Systems at Multiple Points in an Electrical Grid, offer one of the most recent, holistic approaches in valuing the multiple service...
Resource States and State Governments

NYSERDA Battery Energy Storage System Guidebook

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority prepared a 2019 Battery Energy Storage System Guidebook to help local government officials understand and develop battery energy storage sy...
Example States and State Governments

NJ’s A3723

New Jersey passed A3723 (2018) that sets New Jersey’s energy storage target at 2,000 MW by 2030.
Example States and State Governments

Massachusetts energy storage target

In accordance with H4568 (2016), Massachusetts’s Dept. of Energy Resources has adopted a target of 200 MWh of storage by 2020. In July of 2018, Massachusetts passed 4857, raising the state goal to 1,0...
Example States and State Governments

Connecticut’s HB 5002 (2019)

HB 5002 (2019) 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.
Resource Executive Branch

DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap

DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap outlines a Department-wide strategy to accelerate innovation across a range of storage technologies based on three concepts: Innovate Here, Make Here...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Energy Storage for a Modern Electric Grid: Technology Trends and State Policy Options

This 2021 primer from the National Conference of State Legislatures is designed to assist state lawmakers in understanding how energy storage technologies work, the benefits that storage can deliver t...
Resource Executive Branch

FERC Order 841

FERC Order 841 required RTOs and ISOs to revise their tariffs to establish market rules that facilitate the participation of electric storage resources in the capacity, energy, and ancillary service m...