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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Quadrennial Energy Review: Notice of
Public Meeting
Office of Energy Policy and
Systems Analysis, Secretariat,
Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force,
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
At the direction of the
President, the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE or Department), as the
Secretariat for the Quadrennial Energy
Review Task Force (QER) Task Force
will convene a public meeting to
discuss and receive comments on issues
related to the Quadrennial Energy
Review.
SUMMARY:
The sixth public meeting will be
held on Monday, July 21, 2014,
beginning at 9:00 a.m. Written
comments are welcome, especially
following the public meeting, and
should be submitted within 60 days of
the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The Pittsburgh meeting will
be held at the Rashid Auditorium,
Hillman Center, Carnegie Mellon
University, 4902 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
You may submit written comments to:
QERComments@hq.doe.gov or by U.S.
mail to the Office of Energy Policy and
Systems Analysis, EPSA–60, QER
Meeting Comments, U.S. Department of
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Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121.
For the July 21 Public Meeting, please
title your comment ‘‘Natural Gas
Transmission, Storage & Distribution,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 21,
2014’’.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Adonica Renee Pickett, EPSA–90, U.S.
Department of Energy, Office of Energy
Policy and Systems Analysis, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121.
Telephone: (202) 586–9168 Email:
Adonica.Pickett@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
January 9, 2014, President Obama
issued a Presidential Memorandum—
Establishing a Quadrennial Energy
Review. To accomplish this review, the
Presidential Memorandum establishes a
Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force
to be co-chaired by the Director of the
Office of Science and Technology
Policy, and the Director of the Domestic
Policy Council. Under the Presidential
Memorandum, the Secretary of Energy
shall provide support to the Task Force,
including support for coordination
activities related to the preparation of
the Quadrennial Energy Review Report,
policy analysis and modeling, and
stakeholder engagement.
The DOE, as the Secretariat for the
Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force,
will hold a series of public meetings to
discuss and receive comments on issues
related to the Quadrennial Energy
Review.
The initial focus for the Quadrennial
Energy Review will be our Nation’s
infrastructure for transporting,
transmitting, storing and delivering
energy. Our current infrastructure is
increasingly challenged by
transformations in energy supply,
markets, and patterns of end use; issues
of aging and capacity; impacts of
climate change; and cyber and physical
threats. Any vulnerability in this
infrastructure may be exacerbated by the
increasing interdependencies of energy
systems with water,
telecommunications, transportation, and
emergency response systems. The first
Quadrennial Energy Review Report will
serve as a roadmap to help address these
challenges.
The Department of Energy has a broad
role in energy policy development and
the largest role in implementing the
Federal Government’s energy research
and development portfolio. Many other
executive departments and agencies also
play key roles in developing and
implementing policies governing energy
resources and consumption, as well as
associated environmental impacts. In
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addition, non-Federal actors are crucial
contributors to energy policies. Because
most energy and related infrastructure is
owned by private entities, investment
by and engagement of the private sector
is necessary to develop and implement
effective policies. State and local
policies; the views of nongovernmental,
environmental, faith-based, labor, and
other social organizations; and
contributions from the academic and
non-profit sectors are also critical to the
development and implementation of
effective energy policies.
An interagency Quadrennial Energy
Review Task Force, which includes
members from all relevant executive
departments and agencies (agencies),
will develop an integrated review of
energy policy that integrates all of these
perspectives. It will build on the
foundation provided in the
Administration’s Blueprint for a Secure
Energy Future of March 30, 2011, and
Climate Action Plan released on June
25, 2013. The Task Force will offer
recommendations on what additional
actions it believes would be appropriate.
These may include recommendations on
additional executive or legislative
actions to address the energy challenges
and opportunities facing the Nation.
July 21, 2014 Public Meeting: Natural
Gas Transmission, Storage &
Distribution
On July 21, 2014, the DOE will hold
a public meeting in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The July 21, 2014, public
meeting will feature facilitated panel
discussions, followed by an open
microphone session. Persons desiring to
speak during the open microphone
session at the public meeting should
come prepared to speak for no more
than 5 minutes and will be
accommodated on a first-come, firstserve basis, according to the order in
which they register to speak on a signin sheet available at the meeting
location, on the morning of the meeting.
In advance of the meeting, DOE
anticipates making publicly available a
briefing memorandum providing useful
background information regarding the
topics under discussion at the meeting.
DOE will post this memorandum on its
Web site: https://energy.gov.
Submitting comments via email.
Submitting comments by email to the
QER email address will require you to
provide your name and contact
information in the transmittal email.
Your contact information will be
viewable to DOE staff only. Your contact
information will not be publicly
viewable except for your first and last
names, organization name (if any), and
submitter representative name (if any).
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Your contact information will be
publicly viewable if you include it in
the comment itself or in any documents
attached to your comment. Any
information that you do not want to be
publicly viewable should not be
included in your comment, nor in any
document attached to your comment.
Otherwise, persons viewing comments
will see only first and last names,
organization names, correspondence
containing comments, and any
documents submitted with the
comments.
Do not submit to the QER email
address (QERcomments@hq.doe.gov)
information for which disclosure is
restricted by statute, such as trade
secrets and commercial or financial
information (hereinafter referred to as
Confidential Business Information
(CBI)). Comments submitted to the QER
email address cannot be claimed as CBI.
Comments received through the email
address will waive any CBI claims for
the information submitted. For
information on submitting CBI, see the
Confidential Business Information
section, below.
If you do not want your personal
contact information to be publicly
viewable, do not include it in your
comment or any accompanying
documents. Instead, provide your
contact information in a cover letter.
Include your first and last names, email
address, telephone number, and
optional mailing address. The cover
letter will not be publicly viewable as
long as it does not include any
comments.
Include contact information each time
you submit comments, data, documents,
and other information to DOE. If you
submit via mail or hand delivery/
courier, please provide all items on a
CD, if feasible, in which case it is not
necessary to submit printed copies. No
telefacsimiles (faxes) will be accepted.
Comments, data, and other
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they should carry the electronic
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Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person
submitting information that he or she
believes to be confidential and exempt
by law from public disclosure should
submit via email, postal mail, or hand
delivery/courier two well-marked
copies: One copy of the document
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marked ‘‘confidential’’ including all the
information believed to be confidential,
and one copy of the document marked
‘‘non-confidential’’ with the information
believed to be confidential deleted.
Submit these documents via email or on
a CD, if feasible. DOE will make its own
determination about the confidential
status of the information and treat it
according to its determination.
Confidential information should be
submitted to the Confidential QER email
address: QERConfidential@hq.doe.gov
Factors of interest to DOE when
evaluating requests to treat submitted
information as confidential include: (1)
A description of the items; (2) whether
and why such items are customarily
treated as confidential within the
industry; (3) whether the information is
generally known by or available from
other sources; (4) whether the
information has previously been made
available to others without obligation
concerning its confidentiality; (5) an
explanation of the competitive injury to
the submitting person which would
result from public disclosure; (6) when
such information might lose its
confidential character due to the
passage of time; and (7) why disclosure
of the information would be contrary to
the public interest. It is DOE’s policy
that all comments may be included in
the public docket, without change and
as received, including any personal
information provided in the comments
(except information deemed to be
exempt from public disclosure).
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 26,
2014.
Michele Torrusio,
QER Secretariat, QER Interagency Task Force,
U.S. Department of Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Microgrid Competition
Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of a competition.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) announced the
administration of an incentive prize
competition titled ‘‘Microgrid
Competition.’’ The goal of this
Department of Energy Incentive Prize
Competition is to support
implementation of microgrids to
enhance resiliency of the U.S. grid and
to provide a cleaner and more efficient
and cost-effective power system. The
concept of this Competition originated
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from the Resilience Incentive Prizes
Workshop that was sponsored by the
Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to harness
innovation and generate breakthroughs
in energy infrastructure resilience and
to help communities become more
resilient to future events that may occur.
The Competition is in further support of
the DOE-led grand challenges to make
the U.S. grid more resilient.
DATES: See Key Challenge Dates and
Deadlines in SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The Microgrid Competition
is available at https://www.energy.gov/
microgridchallenge.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding this Competition,
its requirements, or evaluation criteria
can be submitted to
MicrogridCompetition@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Key Challenge Dates and Deadlines
Submission Period: July 1, 2014, to
August 29, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Judging Period: September 2, 2014, to
September 30, 2014.
Data Validation Period: October 1,
2014, to October 20, 2014.
Announcement of Winners: October
22, 2014, to October 31, 2014.
II. Introduction
The Competition will award prizes for
operational microgrids in the U.S. with
interconnected distributed energy
resources (DER) that provide
uninterruptible power to critical
facilities and services during
emergencies. Critical facilities and
services are defined by the Contestants,
but typically involve those associated
with preserving public health and
safety. Under this Competition, critical
facilities and services are grouped into
the following six segments: Municipal
facilities; commercial facilities;
industrial facilities and activities;
emergency shelters; healthcare and
hospitals; and other government
facilities. Each Submission must clearly
identify for which one of the six
competition segments it is being
entered. Contestants also are encouraged
to partner with local utilities in the
Competition submission.
III. The Prizes
A total of $600,000 in prizes is
considered to be awarded under this
Competition, i.e., one award of $100,000
in each of the six segments. The award
will recognize the operational microgrid
in each segment that has had the best
current performance, with evidential
data of the record, in enhancing grid
resiliency and providing a cleaner and
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Quadrennial Energy Review: Notice of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Secretariat,
Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: At the direction of the President, the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE or Department), as the Secretariat for the Quadrennial
Energy Review Task Force (QER) Task Force will convene a public meeting
to discuss and receive comments on issues related to the Quadrennial
Energy Review.
DATES: The sixth public meeting will be held on Monday, July 21, 2014,
beginning at 9:00 a.m. Written comments are welcome, especially
following the public meeting, and should be submitted within 60 days of
the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The Pittsburgh meeting will be held at the Rashid
Auditorium, Hillman Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 4902 Forbes
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
You may submit written comments to: QERComments@hq.doe.gov or by
U.S. mail to the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, EPSA-60,
QER Meeting Comments, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121.
For the July 21 Public Meeting, please title your comment ``Natural
Gas Transmission, Storage & Distribution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
July 21, 2014''.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Adonica Renee Pickett, EPSA-90,
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Policy and Systems
Analysis, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121.
Telephone: (202) 586-9168 Email: Adonica.Pickett@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 9, 2014, President Obama issued a
Presidential Memorandum--Establishing a Quadrennial Energy Review. To
accomplish this review, the Presidential Memorandum establishes a
Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force to be co-chaired by the Director
of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Director of the
Domestic Policy Council. Under the Presidential Memorandum, the
Secretary of Energy shall provide support to the Task Force, including
support for coordination activities related to the preparation of the
Quadrennial Energy Review Report, policy analysis and modeling, and
stakeholder engagement.
The DOE, as the Secretariat for the Quadrennial Energy Review Task
Force, will hold a series of public meetings to discuss and receive
comments on issues related to the Quadrennial Energy Review.
The initial focus for the Quadrennial Energy Review will be our
Nation's infrastructure for transporting, transmitting, storing and
delivering energy. Our current infrastructure is increasingly
challenged by transformations in energy supply, markets, and patterns
of end use; issues of aging and capacity; impacts of climate change;
and cyber and physical threats. Any vulnerability in this
infrastructure may be exacerbated by the increasing interdependencies
of energy systems with water, telecommunications, transportation, and
emergency response systems. The first Quadrennial Energy Review Report
will serve as a roadmap to help address these challenges.
The Department of Energy has a broad role in energy policy
development and the largest role in implementing the Federal
Government's energy research and development portfolio. Many other
executive departments and agencies also play key roles in developing
and implementing policies governing energy resources and consumption,
as well as associated environmental impacts. In addition, non-Federal
actors are crucial contributors to energy policies. Because most energy
and related infrastructure is owned by private entities, investment by
and engagement of the private sector is necessary to develop and
implement effective policies. State and local policies; the views of
nongovernmental, environmental, faith-based, labor, and other social
organizations; and contributions from the academic and non-profit
sectors are also critical to the development and implementation of
effective energy policies.
An interagency Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, which includes
members from all relevant executive departments and agencies
(agencies), will develop an integrated review of energy policy that
integrates all of these perspectives. It will build on the foundation
provided in the Administration's Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future
of March 30, 2011, and Climate Action Plan released on June 25, 2013.
The Task Force will offer recommendations on what additional actions it
believes would be appropriate. These may include recommendations on
additional executive or legislative actions to address the energy
challenges and opportunities facing the Nation.
July 21, 2014 Public Meeting: Natural Gas Transmission, Storage &
Distribution
On July 21, 2014, the DOE will hold a public meeting in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The July 21, 2014, public meeting will feature
facilitated panel discussions, followed by an open microphone session.
Persons desiring to speak during the open microphone session at the
public meeting should come prepared to speak for no more than 5 minutes
and will be accommodated on a first-come, first-serve basis, according
to the order in which they register to speak on a sign-in sheet
available at the meeting location, on the morning of the meeting.
In advance of the meeting, DOE anticipates making publicly
available a briefing memorandum providing useful background information
regarding the topics under discussion at the meeting. DOE will post
this memorandum on its Web site: https://energy.gov.
Submitting comments via email. Submitting comments by email to the
QER email address will require you to provide your name and contact
information in the transmittal email. Your contact information will be
viewable to DOE staff only. Your contact information will not be
publicly viewable except for your first and last names, organization
name (if any), and submitter representative name (if any).
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Your contact information will be publicly viewable if you include it in
the comment itself or in any documents attached to your comment. Any
information that you do not want to be publicly viewable should not be
included in your comment, nor in any document attached to your comment.
Otherwise, persons viewing comments will see only first and last names,
organization names, correspondence containing comments, and any
documents submitted with the comments.
Do not submit to the QER email address (QERcomments@hq.doe.gov)
information for which disclosure is restricted by statute, such as
trade secrets and commercial or financial information (hereinafter
referred to as Confidential Business Information (CBI)). Comments
submitted to the QER email address cannot be claimed as CBI. Comments
received through the email address will waive any CBI claims for the
information submitted. For information on submitting CBI, see the
Confidential Business Information section, below.
If you do not want your personal contact information to be publicly
viewable, do not include it in your comment or any accompanying
documents. Instead, provide your contact information in a cover letter.
Include your first and last names, email address, telephone number, and
optional mailing address. The cover letter will not be publicly
viewable as long as it does not include any comments.
Include contact information each time you submit comments, data,
documents, and other information to DOE. If you submit via mail or hand
delivery/courier, please provide all items on a CD, if feasible, in
which case it is not necessary to submit printed copies. No
telefacsimiles (faxes) will be accepted.
Comments, data, and other information submitted to DOE
electronically should be provided in PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word or
Excel, WordPerfect, or text (ASCII) file format. Provide documents that
are not secured, written in English, and are free of any defects or
viruses. Documents should not contain special characters or any form of
encryption and, if possible, they should carry the electronic signature
of the author.
Confidential Business Information. Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any
person submitting information that he or she believes to be
confidential and exempt by law from public disclosure should submit via
email, postal mail, or hand delivery/courier two well-marked copies:
One copy of the document marked ``confidential'' including all the
information believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document
marked ``non-confidential'' with the information believed to be
confidential deleted. Submit these documents via email or on a CD, if
feasible. DOE will make its own determination about the confidential
status of the information and treat it according to its determination.
Confidential information should be submitted to the Confidential QER
email address: QERConfidential@hq.doe.gov
Factors of interest to DOE when evaluating requests to treat
submitted information as confidential include: (1) A description of the
items; (2) whether and why such items are customarily treated as
confidential within the industry; (3) whether the information is
generally known by or available from other sources; (4) whether the
information has previously been made available to others without
obligation concerning its confidentiality; (5) an explanation of the
competitive injury to the submitting person which would result from
public disclosure; (6) when such information might lose its
confidential character due to the passage of time; and (7) why
disclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.
It is DOE's policy that all comments may be included in the public
docket, without change and as received, including any personal
information provided in the comments (except information deemed to be
exempt from public disclosure).
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2014.
Michele Torrusio,
QER Secretariat, QER Interagency Task Force, U.S. Department of Energy.
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