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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 255
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-135
BETTER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY ACT
OCTOBER 22, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1602]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1602) to amend the United States Energy Stor-
age Competitiveness Act of 2007 to establish a research, develop-
ment, and demonstration program for grid-scale energy storage sys-
tems, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment (in the nature of a sub-
stitute) and an amendment to the title and recommends that the
bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENTS
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Better Energy Storage Technology Act or the
BEST Act.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) DEPARTMENT.-The term Department means the Department of Energy.
(2) ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM.-The term energy storage system means any
system, equipment, facility, or technology that-
(A) is capable of absorbing or converting energy, storing the energy for
a period of time, and dispatching the energy; and
(B)(i) uses mechanical, electrochemical, thermal, electrolysis, or other
processes to convert and store electric energy that was generated at an ear-
lier time for use at a later time; or
(ii) stores energy in an electric, thermal, or gaseous state for direct use
for heating or cooling at a later time in a manner that avoids the need to
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