Advocacy Materials
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Energy Storage – Maximizing Our Nation’s Energy Choices Energy storage companies, located in communities across the United States, can create skilled jobs if given a level playing field. We have been innovating for decades, starting with pumped hydropower storage and thermal storage and increasing our technologies with advanced batteries and flywheels. Our plants have created thousands of highly skilled jobs and have significant potential to spur additional job creation if the right policies are put in place. Our costs will come down as technology improves, but public policy needs to improve as well. |
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Clean Energy Financing Act of 2011: Benefits to the Storage Industry The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved S. 1510, co-sponsored by Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a bill that creates a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) to finance the development and deployment of innovative breakthrough clean energy technologies. CEDA directly addresses the primary challenge in developing innovative energy technologies – obtaining adequate to finance promising ideas from inception, to small pilot projects, to large commercial scale applications. The legislation would provide critical and needed support for the energy storage industry. |