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This report, approved at the March 2016 EAC meeting, is an overview of recommendations to the DOE, crafted by the EAC Subcommittees and informed by expert interviews. It is an overview on tangible ways in which the DOE can support distributed energy storage (DES) market deployment through technology developments and technical analyses. This report also highlights the current status of the DES market, unique benefits and challenges of DES, public policy implications, a discussion regarding the need for codes and standards development, and a general overview of the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) market and technologies.