SunShot Catalyst Program, 30597-30598 [2014-12290]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 102 / Wednesday, May 28, 2014 / Notices
emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat.
770) requires that public notice of this
meeting be announced in the Federal
Register.
DATES: Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 6:00
p.m.
ADDRESSES: Department of Energy
Information Center, Office of Science
and Technical Information, 1
Science.gov Way, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
37830.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Melyssa P. Noe, Federal Coordinator,
Department of Energy Oak Ridge
Operations Office, P.O. Box 2001, EM–
90, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Phone (865)
241–3315; Fax (865) 576–0956 or email:
noemp@emor.doe.gov or check the Web
site at https://energy.gov/orem/services/
community-engagement/oak-ridge-sitespecific-advisory-board.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Board: The purpose of
the Board is to make recommendations
to DOE–EM and site management in the
areas of environmental restoration,
waste management, and related
activities.
Tentative Agenda
• Welcome and Announcements
• Comments from the Deputy
Designated Federal Officer
• Comments from the DOE, Tennessee
Department of Environment and
Conservation, and Environmental
Protection Agency Liaisons
• Public Comment Period
• Presentation
• Additions/Approval of Agenda
• Motions/Approval of May 14, 2014
Meeting Minutes
• Status of Recommendations with DOE
• Committee Reports
• Federal Coordinator Report
• Adjourn
Public Participation: The EM SSAB,
Oak Ridge, welcomes the attendance of
the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to
accommodate persons with physical
disabilities or special needs. If you
require special accommodations due to
a disability, please contact Melyssa P.
Noe at least seven days in advance of
the meeting at the phone number listed
above. Written statements may be filed
with the Board either before or after the
meeting. Individuals who wish to make
oral statements pertaining to the agenda
item should contact Melyssa P. Noe at
the address or telephone number listed
above. Requests must be received five
days prior to the meeting and reasonable
provision will be made to include the
presentation in the agenda. The Deputy
Designated Federal Officer is
empowered to conduct the meeting in a
VerDate Mar<15>2010
16:58 May 27, 2014
Jkt 232001
fashion that will facilitate the orderly
conduct of business. Individuals
wishing to make public comments will
be provided a maximum of five minutes
to present their comments.
Minutes: Minutes will be available by
writing or calling Melyssa P. Noe at the
address and phone number listed above.
Minutes will also be available at the
following Web site: https://energy.gov/
orem/services/community-engagement/
oak-ridge-site-specific-advisory-board.
Issued at Washington, DC, on May 20,
2014.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–12331 Filed 5–27–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
SunShot Catalyst Program
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice; Release of competition
rules and processes to compete.
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) gives notice of the availability of
the SunShot Catalyst Program prize
competition rules. The Program is a
series of prize-based contests designed
to incentivize the public to address
time-sensitive market problems in solar.
The Program consists of four steps
(Ideation, Business Innovation,
Prototyping, and Incubation) with value
awarded to all winning contestants
totaling $1,000,000, which includes
approximately $500,000 in cash prizes.
DATES: Submission to the Ideation step
began May 21, 2014, and must be
received electronically by June 20, 2014.
Submission to the Business Innovation
step begins July 24, 2014, and must be
received electronically by August 13,
2014. All dates are subject to change.
Other important dates are provided
online at catalyst.energy.gov.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons can find
full details about the competition rules
and register to participate online at
catalyst.energy.gov. Questions about the
prize competition can be sent to:
• Email: sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov.
• Mail: Mr. Victor Kane, U.S.
Department of Energy, Mailstop EE–4S,
1000 Independence Avenue,
Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions may be directed to Mr. Victor
Kane at (202) 287–1862 or by email at:
sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov.
SUMMARY:
PO 00000
Frm 00059
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
30597
The
America COMPETES Reauthorization
Act of 2010 (America COMPETES),
Public Law 111–358, enacted January 4,
2011, authorizes Federal agencies to
issue competitions to stimulate
innovations in technology, education,
and science. The SunShot Catalyst
Program consists of four steps with
value awarded to all winning
contestants totaling $1,000,000, which
includes approximately $500,000 in
cash prizes. The following is only a
summary of each step. For more
information please review the full
details online at catalyst.energy.gov.
Contest rules are subject to change.
Eligibility: The Contest is open only
to: (a) Citizens or permanent residents of
the United States; and (b) private
entities, such as corporations or other
organizations that are incorporated in
and maintain a primary place of
business in the United States.
Individuals submitting on behalf of
corporations, nonprofits, or groups of
individuals (such as an academic class
or other team) must meet the eligibility
requirements for individual
participants. An individual may join
more than one team, corporation, or
nonprofit organization. DOE employees,
employees of sponsoring organizations,
and members of their immediate family
(spouses, children, siblings, parents),
and persons living in the same
household as such persons, whether or
not related, are not eligible to
participate in any portion of the
SunShot Catalyst Program. Federal
entities and Federal employees, acting
within the scope of their employment,
are also not eligible to participate in any
portion of the SunShot Catalyst
Program.
Step 1: The Ideation Contest focuses
on generating and aggregating pressing
U.S. solar market needs and problem
statements that can be solved through
automation, algorithms, data, and
software, especially by leveraging
available data assets, tools, capabilities
and resources. Anyone can participate
in this contest by submitting problem
statements online or by voting on
existing submissions of problem
statements during the active voting
period. There will be five monetary
prizes of $1,000 each, based on the
results of a subsequent Incubation
Contest (Step 4). A contestant with a
problem statement, in the Ideation
Contest, may win $1,000 in cash prizes,
when a team, who adopted this
referenced problem statement in their
business solution, has been selected
among top five winners in the
Incubation Contest.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
E:\FR\FM\28MYN1.SGM
28MYN1
emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES
30598
Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 102 / Wednesday, May 28, 2014 / Notices
Submission Period Began: Wednesday
May 21, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET.
Submission Period Ends: Friday June
20, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Step 2: The Business Innovation
Contest is designed to help teams form
and explore business solutions to the
most compelling problems in increasing
solar energy generation, especially
problems and challenges expressed by
the public during Step 1, the Ideation
Contest. Anyone can participate in this
Contest by submitting a business plan
package online featuring a five minute
video describing the proposed business
plan. Winners of Step 2 will be given
the opportunity to participate in the
next contest, Prototyping (Step 3). DOE
will grant access to $25,000 worth of
online software development
capabilities for every winner of Step 2.
Winners will be selected based on the
degree to which their business plan
addresses a time-sensitive market
problem in the solar industry. Up to 20
winners will be given the opportunity to
work directly with a crowd-centric
performance-based software
development platform (PSDP) for 60
days to develop the product proposed in
their business plan and complete
minimum viable products (MVPs).
Submission Period Begins: Thursday
July 24, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET.
Submission Period Ends: Wednesday
August 13, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Step 3: The Prototyping stage is
designed to help the selected winners
from the Business Innovation Contest
(Step 2) rapidly complete the
development of minimum viable
products (MVPs) using a crowd-centric,
performance-based software
development platform. DOE will match
winners of stage 2 with a DOE provided
software developer. The software
developer will work with the winners to
provide the technology solutions to
support their business plan.
Step 4: The Incubation Contest is
designed to help teams with minimum
viable products (MVPs) completed
during a prior Step 3 (Prototyping) start
their businesses and accelerate offering
new products and services in the solar
marketplace. To win cash awards, teams
have to participate in a publically held
event, Demonstration (Demo) Day,
managed by DOE to showcase their
MVPs, market entry execution strategy,
and a 6-month growth plan. During
Demo Day, Teams will be evaluated by
judges selected in accordance with
America COMPETES. The top five
winners may receive a maximum total
of $100,000 in cash prizes, per winning
team. Funds will be distributed in two
tranches as a seed round and a progress
round. The first tranche seed round of
VerDate Mar<15>2010
16:58 May 27, 2014
Jkt 232001
$30,000 will be given to the five top
teams that participate in Demo Day.
Winners will be selected based on the
degree to which their minimum viable
product addresses a time-sensitive
market problem in the solar industry.
Those teams will be eligible for a second
tranche progress round of $70,000 as a
follow-on cash award based on the
Team’s success in meeting its targets
and goals as identified in its 6-month
growth plan. Demo Date: January 19–
February 09, 2015. Seed Round 1st
Tranche Cash Awards Announcement
Date: Monday February 09, 2015. 6month Assessment Period Ends:
Monday August 10, 2015 at 11:59 p.m.
ET. Progress Round Awards and 2nd
Tranche Cash Prizes Announcement
Date: September 10–20, 2015.
All dates are subject to change. For
more details please visit
catalyst.energy.gov.
Dated: May 20, 2014.
Steven G. Chalk,
Deputy Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014–12290 Filed 5–27–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC14–14–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–519); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 USC
3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on
the currently approved information
collection, Application under Federal
Power Act Section 203.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due July 28, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC14–14–000)
by either of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
SUMMARY:
PO 00000
Frm 00060
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
submission guidelines at: https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
docket or in viewing/downloading
comments and issuances in this docket
may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–519, Application under
Federal Power Act Section 203.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0082.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–519 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: The FERC–519,
‘‘Application under Federal Power Act
Section 203,’’ is necessary to enable the
Commission to carry out its
responsibilities in implementing the
statutory provisions of Section 203 of
the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C.
824b. Section 203 authorizes the
Commission to grant approval of
transactions in which a public utility
disposes of jurisdictional facilities,
merges such facilities with the facilities
owned by another person or acquires
the securities of another public utility.
Under this statute, the Commission
must find that the proposed transaction
will be consistent with the public
interest.
Under section 203 of the FPA, FERC
must review proposed mergers,
acquisitions and dispositions of
jurisdictional facilities by public
utilities, if the value of the facilities
exceeds $10 million, and must approve
these transactions if they are consistent
with the public interest. One of FERC’s
overarching goals is to promote
competition in wholesale power
markets, having determined that
effective competition, as opposed to
traditional forms of price regulation, can
best protect the interests of ratepayers.
Market power, however, can be
exercised to the detriment of effective
competition and customers, making it
necessary for FERC to review and
approve or disapprove all jurisdictional
mergers, dispositions and acquisitions.
The Commission implements these
filing requirements in the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR
part 33.
E:\FR\FM\28MYN1.SGM
28MYN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 102 (Wednesday, May 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30597-30598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12290]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
SunShot Catalyst Program
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice; Release of competition rules and processes to compete.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of the
availability of the SunShot Catalyst Program prize competition rules.
The Program is a series of prize-based contests designed to incentivize
the public to address time-sensitive market problems in solar. The
Program consists of four steps (Ideation, Business Innovation,
Prototyping, and Incubation) with value awarded to all winning
contestants totaling $1,000,000, which includes approximately $500,000
in cash prizes.
DATES: Submission to the Ideation step began May 21, 2014, and must be
received electronically by June 20, 2014. Submission to the Business
Innovation step begins July 24, 2014, and must be received
electronically by August 13, 2014. All dates are subject to change.
Other important dates are provided online at catalyst.energy.gov.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons can find full details about the
competition rules and register to participate online at
catalyst.energy.gov. Questions about the prize competition can be sent
to:
Email: sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov.
Mail: Mr. Victor Kane, U.S. Department of Energy, Mailstop
EE-4S, 1000 Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be directed to Mr.
Victor Kane at (202) 287-1862 or by email at:
sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010 (America COMPETES), Public Law 111-358, enacted January 4, 2011,
authorizes Federal agencies to issue competitions to stimulate
innovations in technology, education, and science. The SunShot Catalyst
Program consists of four steps with value awarded to all winning
contestants totaling $1,000,000, which includes approximately $500,000
in cash prizes. The following is only a summary of each step. For more
information please review the full details online at
catalyst.energy.gov. Contest rules are subject to change.
Eligibility: The Contest is open only to: (a) Citizens or permanent
residents of the United States; and (b) private entities, such as
corporations or other organizations that are incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States. Individuals
submitting on behalf of corporations, nonprofits, or groups of
individuals (such as an academic class or other team) must meet the
eligibility requirements for individual participants. An individual may
join more than one team, corporation, or nonprofit organization. DOE
employees, employees of sponsoring organizations, and members of their
immediate family (spouses, children, siblings, parents), and persons
living in the same household as such persons, whether or not related,
are not eligible to participate in any portion of the SunShot Catalyst
Program. Federal entities and Federal employees, acting within the
scope of their employment, are also not eligible to participate in any
portion of the SunShot Catalyst Program.
Step 1: The Ideation Contest focuses on generating and aggregating
pressing U.S. solar market needs and problem statements that can be
solved through automation, algorithms, data, and software, especially
by leveraging available data assets, tools, capabilities and resources.
Anyone can participate in this contest by submitting problem statements
online or by voting on existing submissions of problem statements
during the active voting period. There will be five monetary prizes of
$1,000 each, based on the results of a subsequent Incubation Contest
(Step 4). A contestant with a problem statement, in the Ideation
Contest, may win $1,000 in cash prizes, when a team, who adopted this
referenced problem statement in their business solution, has been
selected among top five winners in the Incubation Contest.
[[Page 30598]]
Submission Period Began: Wednesday May 21, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET.
Submission Period Ends: Friday June 20, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Step 2: The Business Innovation Contest is designed to help teams
form and explore business solutions to the most compelling problems in
increasing solar energy generation, especially problems and challenges
expressed by the public during Step 1, the Ideation Contest. Anyone can
participate in this Contest by submitting a business plan package
online featuring a five minute video describing the proposed business
plan. Winners of Step 2 will be given the opportunity to participate in
the next contest, Prototyping (Step 3). DOE will grant access to
$25,000 worth of online software development capabilities for every
winner of Step 2. Winners will be selected based on the degree to which
their business plan addresses a time-sensitive market problem in the
solar industry. Up to 20 winners will be given the opportunity to work
directly with a crowd-centric performance-based software development
platform (PSDP) for 60 days to develop the product proposed in their
business plan and complete minimum viable products (MVPs). Submission
Period Begins: Thursday July 24, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET. Submission
Period Ends: Wednesday August 13, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Step 3: The Prototyping stage is designed to help the selected
winners from the Business Innovation Contest (Step 2) rapidly complete
the development of minimum viable products (MVPs) using a crowd-
centric, performance-based software development platform. DOE will
match winners of stage 2 with a DOE provided software developer. The
software developer will work with the winners to provide the technology
solutions to support their business plan.
Step 4: The Incubation Contest is designed to help teams with
minimum viable products (MVPs) completed during a prior Step 3
(Prototyping) start their businesses and accelerate offering new
products and services in the solar marketplace. To win cash awards,
teams have to participate in a publically held event, Demonstration
(Demo) Day, managed by DOE to showcase their MVPs, market entry
execution strategy, and a 6-month growth plan. During Demo Day, Teams
will be evaluated by judges selected in accordance with America
COMPETES. The top five winners may receive a maximum total of $100,000
in cash prizes, per winning team. Funds will be distributed in two
tranches as a seed round and a progress round. The first tranche seed
round of $30,000 will be given to the five top teams that participate
in Demo Day. Winners will be selected based on the degree to which
their minimum viable product addresses a time-sensitive market problem
in the solar industry. Those teams will be eligible for a second
tranche progress round of $70,000 as a follow-on cash award based on
the Team's success in meeting its targets and goals as identified in
its 6-month growth plan. Demo Date: January 19-February 09, 2015. Seed
Round 1st Tranche Cash Awards Announcement Date: Monday February 09,
2015. 6-month Assessment Period Ends: Monday August 10, 2015 at 11:59
p.m. ET. Progress Round Awards and 2nd Tranche Cash Prizes Announcement
Date: September 10-20, 2015.
All dates are subject to change. For more details please visit
catalyst.energy.gov.
Dated: May 20, 2014.
Steven G. Chalk,
Deputy Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-12290 Filed 5-27-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P
