Latest regulations on household energy storage policy

What are the different types of energy storage policy?

Approximately 16 states have adopted some form of energy storage policy, which broadly fall into the following categories: procurement targets, regulatory adaption, demonstration programs, financial incentives, and consumer protections. Below we give an overview of each of these energy storage policy categories.

What is the Household Energy Policy Repository?

The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), developed a Household Energy Policy Repository (“the Repository”) to serve as an online clearinghouse for national, regional and local policies, regulations and legislation affecting household energy use.

What is a storage policy?

All of the states with a storage policy in place have a renewable portfolio standard or a nonbinding renewable energy goal. Regulatory changes can broaden competitive access to storage such as by updating resource planning requirements or permitting storage through rate proceedings.

Does the energy storage strategic plan address new policy actions?

This SRM does not address new policy actions, nor does it specify budgets and resources for future activities. This Energy Storage SRM responds to the Energy Storage Strategic Plan periodic update requirement of the Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) section of the Energy Policy Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. § 17232 (b) (5)).

How much energy storage will Maine have by 2021?

Maine also set its goal in 2021 to achieve 400 MW of installed storage capacity by 2030, with an interim target of 300 MW by 2025. New York originally set a goal to procure 3 GW of energy storage by 2030, but New York Governor Kathy Hochul most recently announced plans to double that goal to reach 6 GW by 2030.

Why is Doe investing in energy storage?

The underlying motivation for DOE’s strategic investment in energy storage is to ensure that the American people will have access to energy storage innovations that enable resilient, flexible, affordable, and secure energy systems and supply, for everyone, everywhere.