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 23, 2021
More than 150 organizations today sent a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders requesting they include bipartisan legislation that would make standalone storage projects eligible for the investment tax [...]Read More
September 11, 2020
The U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA) joined more than 70 companies, trade associations, and other stakeholders across the energy spectrum to ask Senate leadership to pass the American Energy Innovation [...]Read More
August 31, 2020
In response to the Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Storage Grand Challenge draft roadmap and associated Request for Information, ESA submitted broadly supportive comments outlining high-level considerations to ensure that [...]Read More
August 24, 2020
ESA filed comments requesting that the Department of Energy (DOE) implement the Executive Order on Securing the Bulk Power System in a manner that focuses on reducing regulatory uncertainty and [...]Read More
August 18, 2020
ESA joined a diverse set of organizations to send a letter to Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to place legislation addressing energy and climate technology and [...]Read More
July 31, 2020
ESA’s CEO Kelly Speakes-Backman wrote today to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in full support of the nominations of Commissioner Mark C. Christie and Ms. Allison Clements to [...]Read More
June 02, 2020
Today, ESA and allied organizations sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees’ Energy & Water Development Subcommittees seeking significant increases to federal investments in energy storage technology [...]Read More
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