; (B) to identify any additional regulatory barriers that inhibit the installation of distributed energy; and (C) to recommend to the Secretary any actions that should be undertaken to remove these barriers. (5) Report Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to Congress a report based on the recommendations of the Group under paragraph (4)(C), to be made publicly available. (6) Funding The Secretary may request funding as necessary to carry out this subsection, but in no case shall funding exceed $2,000,000 in any 1 fiscal year. (e) Demonstrations of intelligent grid integration of clean distributed energy systems (1) In general Based on the findings in the reports conducted under this section and not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a solicitation for demonstration of integration of distributed energy resources into the grid. (2) Eligible entities Any individual entity or group of entities may submit to the Secretary proposals for demonstration projects based on the solicitation described in paragraph (1), including— (A) State and local agencies; (B) public institutions; (C) private companies; (D) electric and natural gas utilities; and (E) equipment manufacturers. (3) Grants authorized The Secretary may make grants, in amounts not to exceed a total of $5,000,000, to eligible entities to carry out demonstration projects, to be selected based on— (A) the technical merits of the demonstration project; (B) the likelihood that the demonstration project will address critical barriers identified by the Secretary under this section