ESA engages with officials at the White House and across the Departments to educate on energy storage technologies markets and inform federal activities promoting energy storage. In addition, ESA educates Members of Congress on energy storage technologies and the U.S. industry, building broad and bipartisan support for initiatives on storage to address a variety of public policy priorities.
March 30, 2020
Today ESA filed testimony with the Energy & Water Development Subcommittees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting significant public investment in energy storage innovation. Specifically, ESA requested $300 [...]Read More
February 11, 2020
ESA’s CEO, Kelly Speakes-Backman, testified today at a hearing of the Energy Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on several energy storage bills, emphasizing ESA’s endorsement of the [...]Read More
February 07, 2020
ESA, AEE, and SEIA filed a brief in support of FERC’s defense of its landmark rule to remove barriers to energy storage, Order 841. Petitions from NARUC and other organizations [...]Read More
February 03, 2020
ESA filed a request with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to not apply tariffs to batteries sourced from China that are intended for stationary energy storage systems. ESA notes that [...]Read More
November 19, 2019
This morning the House Ways & Means committee released a discussion draft of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now Act of 2019, or GREEN Act, that includes investment tax [...]Read More
October 25, 2019
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) formally announced the opening of a process to request exclusions from tariffs on Chinese goods in List 4 of the Sec. 301 trade case—a list [...]Read More
September 09, 2019
ESA delivered a letter from more than 20 members of the California legislature to Speaker Pelosi and other members of the US House from California urging adoption of HR 2096, [...]Read More
August 12, 2019
Today ESA filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to intervene in consolidated cases 19-1142 & 19-1147 in support of FERC’s authority regarding [...]Read More
July 17, 2019
At a hearing of the Energy Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Science, Space, & Technology Committee today, ESA CEO Kelly Speakes-Backman testified in support of including energy storage in forthcoming legislation [...]Read More
June 21, 2019
Today ESA filed comments with the Senate Finance Committee’s Energy Task Forcerequesting inclusion of energy storage in current or future energy investment tax credits. In the letter, ESA draws attention to [...]Read More