Specifications include, but are not limited to: The IEDA and the Iowa Energy Office would like to initiate an energy storage assessment that will perform an extensive review of energy and economic development opportunities of storage in the state of Iowa as well as identify potential benefits, barriers and paths to implementation in Iowa. The consultant will analyze Iowaspecific data including battery supply chain, potential storage users, policies, regulations and the utility landscape to the extent that it impacts energy storage opportunities. Below is a list of topics that should be addressed in the assessment and included in the final report. These are high level discussion points and the expectation is that each topic will be explored, researched and presented in a way that highlights potential, opportunity, economic development and the benefits storage brings to Iowa. 1. Fully capture and realize the benefits of energy storage for all stakeholders 2. Mechanisms to support growth of the storage industry 3. Economic models to show projected high/low level growth and what that means to the industry/Iowa 4. Effects on the grid, resiliency, ratepayers, industry, etc. 5. Perceived regulatory/legislative barriers 6. Benefits and barriers to storage that could be deployed at each sector of customer, industry, distribution system, and transmission systems, given the rural nature of Iowa’s communities and its significant rural agricultural and manufacturing base 7. US/State incentives snapshot 8. Samples of Iowa/national pilot projects/best practice models 9. Repurpose/Recycle/Re-use of retired batteries and the possibility of Iowa filling that need 10. Supply chain/economic development benefits and opportunities 11. Resiliency opportunities 12. Purposes for & economics associated with residential/commercial/industrial/utility-scale applications 13. Benefits in the form of cost savings/reductions to ratepayers, utilities and industry