[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5640 Introduced in House (IH)]
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114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5640
To provide for the establishment at the Department of Energy of an
Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 6, 2016
Mr. Smith of Texas (for himself, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr.
Knight, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Posey, Mr. Moolenaar, and Mr.
Babin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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A BILL
To provide for the establishment at the Department of Energy of an
Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative.
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 ``Electricity Storage Innovation
Act''.
SEC. 2. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.
(a) Amendment.--Section 975 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42
U.S.C. 16315) is amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 975. ELECTRICITY STORAGE BASIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.
``(a) Initiative.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall carry out a research
initiative, to be known as the Electricity Storage Basic
Research Initiative, to expand theoretical and fundamental
knowledge to control, store, and convert electrical energy to
chemical energy and the inverse. This initiative shall support
scientific inquiry into the practical understanding of chemical
and physical processes that occur within systems involving
crystalline and amorphous solids, polymers, and organic and
aqueous liquids.
``(2) Leveraging.--The Secretary shall leverage expertise
and resources from the Basic Energy Sciences Program, Advanced
Scientific Computing Research Program, and Biological and
Environmental Research Program within the Office of Science,
and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as
provided under subsections (b), (c), and (d).
``(3) Teams.--The Secretary shall organize activities under
the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative to include
multidisciplinary teams leveraging expertise from the National
Laboratories, universities, and the private sector to the
extent practicable. These multidisciplinary teams shall pursue
aggressive, milestone-driven basic research goals. The
Secretary shall provide sufficient resources for those teams to
achieve those goals over a period of time to be determined by
the Secretary.
``(4) Additional activities.--The Secretary is authorized
to organize additional activities under this subsection through
Energy Frontier Research Centers or other organizational
structures.
``(b) Multivalent Systems.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall, as part of the
Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, carry out a
program to support research needed to bridge scientific
barriers and discover knowledge relevant to multivalent ion
materials in electric energy storage systems. In carrying out
activities under this subsection, the Director of the Office of
Basic Energy Sciences shall investigate electrochemical
properties and the dynamics of materials, including charge
transfer phenomena and mass transport in materials. The
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
shall support translational research, development, and
validation of physical concepts developed under this
subsection.
``(2) Standard of review.--The Secretary shall review the
program activities under this subsection to determine the
achievement of technical milestones.
``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--
``(A) Authorization.--Subject to subsection (e),
there are authorized for carrying out activities under
this subsection for each of fiscal years 2017 through
2020--
``(i) $50,000,000 from funds within the
Basic Energy Sciences Program account; and
``(ii) $25,000,000 from funds within the
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account.
``(B) Prohibition.--No funds authorized under this
subsection may be obligated or expended for commercial
application of energy technology.
``(c) Electrochemistry Modeling and Simulation.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall, as part of the
Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, carry out a
program to support research to model and simulate organic
electrolytes, including their static and dynamic
electrochemical behavior and phenomena at the molecular and
atomic level in monovalent and multivalent systems. In carrying
out activities under this subsection, the Director of the
Office of Basic Energy Sciences shall, in coordination with the
Associate Director of Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
support the development of high performance computational tools
through a joint development process to maximize the
effectiveness of current and projected high performance
computing systems. The Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall support translational
research, development, and validation of physical concepts
developed under this subsection.
``(2) Standard of review.--The Secretary shall review the
program activities under this subsection to determine the
achievement of technical milestones.
``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--
``(A) Authorization.--Subject to subsection (e),
there are authorized for carrying out activities under
this subsection for each of fiscal years 2017 through
2020--
``(i) $30,000,000 from funds within the
Basic Energy Sciences Program and Advanced
Scientific Computing Research Program accounts;
and
``(ii) $15,000,000 from funds within the
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account.
``(B) Prohibition.--No funds authorized under this
subsection may be obligated or expended for commercial
application of energy technology.
``(d) Mesoscale Electrochemistry.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall, as part of the
Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative, carry out a
program to support research needed to reveal electrochemistry
in confined mesoscale spaces, including scientific discoveries
relevant to bio-electrochemistry and electrochemical energy
conversion and storage in confined spaces and the dynamics of
these phenomena. In carrying out activities under this
subsection, the Director of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences
and the Associate Director of Biological and Environmental
Research shall investigate phenomena of mesoscale
electrochemical confinement for the purpose of replicating and
controlling new electrochemical behavior. The Assistant
Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall
support translational research, development, and validation of
physical concepts developed under this subsection.
``(2) Standard of review.--The Secretary shall review the
program activities under this subsection to determine the
achievement of technical milestones.
``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--
``(A) Authorization.--Subject to subsection (e),
there are authorized for carrying out activities under
this subsection for each of fiscal years 2017 through
2020--
``(i) $20,000,000 from funds within the
Basic Energy Sciences Program and the
Biological and Environmental Research Program
accounts; and
``(ii) $10,000,000 from funds within the
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account.
``(B) Prohibition.--No funds authorized under this
subsection may be obligated or expended for commercial
application of energy technology.
``(e) Funding.--No additional funds are authorized to be
appropriated under this section. This section shall be carried out
using funds otherwise authorized by law.''.
(b) Table of Contents Amendment.--The item relating to section 975
in the table of contents of such Act is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 975. Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative.''.
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