Dive Brief:
President Joe Biden's $1.52 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 includes a policy making standalone energy storage projects eligible for the federal investment tax credit (ITC), a move that advocates say will unleash new capital for renewable energy. The budget request also included new spending on storage as part of the administration's goal to decarbonize the energy sector by 2035.
Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, also included the storage ITC proposal along with $100 billion in power grid investments.
A Treasury Department report released last week stated that expanding tax incentives for storage would help put the country on a path to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and "help ensure that the electricity supply is reliable as well as less harmful to the climate."