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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Request for Information—Foundation
for Energy Security and Innovation
(FESI)
Office of Technology
Transitions, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Request for information (RFI).
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) publishes the following
questions regarding potential
engagement with the Foundation for
Energy Security and Innovation (FESI),
directed to be established under the
CHIPS and Science Act. The purpose of
this RFI is to seek input on how DOE
stakeholders may engage with the FESI
directly, and how DOE may engage with
SUMMARY:
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the FESI and the communities it will
serve. Interested parties are requested to
answer some or all of the questions at
their discretion.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be
received no later than 5 p.m. (ET) on
March 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to
submit comments electronically to
FESI.RFI@hq.doe.gov with the subject
line ‘‘FESI RFI Response’’ no later than
March 27, 2023. All responses must be
submitted as a Microsoft Word
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5 pages in length, with black, Times
New Roman, 12 point font, and 1 inch
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Yamada, (240) 888–4568,
Mary.Yamada@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is
renowned for its research prowess,
technology expertise, and ability to
leverage American ingenuity to invent
early-stage clean energy technologies.
To help meet the Administration’s
climate, jobs, and economic goals, it is
imperative that our early-stage
technologies are successfully guided
through to demonstration and
deployment. Only then will DOEinvested technologies activate their
fullest potential to help combat the
global climate crisis. The Office of
Technology Transitions (OTT) works to
develop policies, share lessons learned,
and improve the Department’s ability to
commercialize. At the highest level,
commercialization is the process of
taking an idea and bringing it to
market—or progression across the
research, development, demonstration,
and deployment (RDD&D) continuum to
obtain market viability. The RDD&D
continuum provides a useful framework
for mapping the stages of a technology’s
progression to commercialization—
starting with research into an innovative
idea and ending with commercial scale
deployment.
The commercialization pathway for
clean technologies is nonlinear and
often fails because of inadequate
support infrastructure including capital,
tooling, as well as market,
manufacturing, and industry expertise—
not because of the technology’s
fundamentals. Commercialization
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support infrastructure on a national,
regional, and local scale are essential to
ensuring economics are addressed and
critical ecosystem players are onboard.
The economic and business model
requirements for deployment, as well as
a technology’s societal considerations,
can and should shape the technical
problem definition and design of
solutions at all stages of the RDD&D
continuum. OTT is charged with
thinking through this problem set and
working collaboratively across DOE to
maximize our commercialization
outcomes. Given the importance and
complexity of OTT’s commercialization
mandate, it is essential the DOE explore
and leverage all authorities granted to
the Agency. This includes a new DOE
opportunity in the CHIPS and Science
Act of 2022—the Foundation for Energy
Security and Innovation (FESI).
There has been much interest in the
establishment of this new foundation,
and DOE has received inquiries
regarding future activities with FESI. In
order to obtain a wide array of
perspectives from stakeholders, DOE,
through this RFI, is seeking input on
how it might engage with the FESI and
the communities it will serve.
The FESI is to be established as an
independent non-profit entity by the
DOE pursuant to authorization in the
CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (section
10691) (Pub. L. 117–167), signed into
law by President Biden on August 9,
2022. The mission of FESI is two-fold:
(1) to support the mission of the
Department of Energy generally; and
more specifically, (2) to increase private
and philanthropic sector investments to
accelerate the commercialization of
energy technologies. The statute
provides FESI with broad authority to
carry out its mission.
To accomplish this mission, Congress
authorized the FESI to engage with the
private sector to raise funds that support
efforts to ‘‘create, characterize, develop,
test, validate, and deploy or
commercialize innovative technologies
that address crosscutting national
energy challenges’’.1
To facilitate establishment of FESI so
it may begin achieving its mission,
Congress has mandated that DOE
appoint and convene a Board of
Directors to include statutorily required
ex officio non-voting members from
DOE, as well as appointed voting
members. The CHIPS and Science Act of
2022 identified the DOE ex officio
members of the Board as the Secretary
of Energy, the Under Secretary for
Science, the Under Secretary for
1 Section
10691, CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
(Pub. L. 117–167).
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Nuclear Security, and the DOE Chief
Commercialization Officer.
To assist with identifying potential
initial voting members of the Board,
Congress mandated DOE consult with
the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine to develop a
list of well-qualified individuals that
represent a diverse set of stakeholders.
Following appointment of the initial
Board of Directors and establishment of
FESI, the Department of Energy’s
Secretary will also appoint liaisons from
across DOE, including from the Office of
Technology Transitions (OTT) and the
Undersecretaries for and Infrastructure,
among others, to collaborate and
coordinate with the Foundation. As
specified in the CHIPS and Science Act
of 2022, collaboration and coordination
with OTT and other relevant DOE
offices is essential to ensure that the
FESI supports the DOE mission without
duplicating existing commercialization
and other activities and programs
carried out by the DOE.
Questions seeking input on potential
objectives and activities for DOE
engagement with the FESI:
To help identify and prioritize
opportunities for DOE to engage and
partner with the FESI, DOE is seeking
information from potential stakeholder
groups including, but not limited to:
• Philanthropic and non-profit
organizations.
• Community stakeholders.
• DOE’s National Laboratory
foundations.
• Potential investors in companies
developing technologies aligned with
the DOE mission.
• Industry stakeholders, especially
those representing diverse regions,
sectors, and communities.
• Other potential stakeholders or
collaborators of FESI.
1. Which aspects of the DOE mission 2
and energy technology
commercialization 3 can you identify as
potentially benefitting from FESI’s
involvement?
2. Once the FESI is established, what
mission areas would you recommend
DOE prioritize working on with the
FESI?
3. In what ways would you
recommend DOE seek support of the
FESI to carry out the mission areas
identified?
4. To assist DOE in understanding and
potentially better aligning with
stakeholder interest, in what ways
would you recommend DOE engage
with organizations to determine what
they seek to accomplish?
2 DOE’s mission statement can be found at the
following link: https://www.energy.gov/mission.
3 See commercialization description.
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5. How would you envision DOE
engage with the FESI to:
a. Better support communities
wishing to participate in the energy
transition?
b. Better support industry and small
businesses wishing to participate in the
energy transition?
c. Drive long-term climate and clean
energy strategy?
d. Broaden participation in energy
technology development among
individuals from historically
underrepresented groups or regions?
e. Support the commercialization of
energy technologies?
f. Support workforce development?
g. Foster collaboration and
partnerships with researchers from the
Federal Government, State governments,
institutions of higher education,
including historically Black colleges or
universities, Tribal Colleges or
Universities, and minority-serving
institutions, federally funded research
and development centers (FFRDCs),
industry, and nonprofit organizations
for the research, development,
demonstration and deployment of
transformative energy and associated
technologies?
6. What potential challenges should
DOE be aware of to proactively manage
given the intent to establish the FESI?
7. What other ways could the
establishment of FESI support the DOE
missions? How could DOE engage
effectively with the FESI on these
activities?
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This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on February 9, 2023,
by Vanessa Chan, Chief
Commercialization Officer and Director,
Office of Technology Transitions,
pursuant to delegated authority from the
Secretary of Energy. That document
with the original signature and date is
maintained by DOE. For administrative
purposes only, and in compliance with
requirements of the Office of the Federal
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the Department of Energy. This
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the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on February 10,
2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Request for Information--Foundation for Energy Security and
Innovation (FESI)
AGENCY: Office of Technology Transitions, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Request for information (RFI).
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) publishes the following
questions regarding potential engagement with the Foundation for Energy
Security and Innovation (FESI), directed to be established under the
CHIPS and Science Act. The purpose of this RFI is to seek input on how
DOE stakeholders may engage with the FESI directly, and how DOE may
engage with
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the FESI and the communities it will serve. Interested parties are
requested to answer some or all of the questions at their discretion.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received no later than 5 p.m. (ET)
on March 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to
[email protected] with the subject line ``FESI RFI Response'' no
later than March 27, 2023. All responses must be submitted as a
Microsoft Word document (.doc/.docx) of no more than 5 pages in length,
with black, Times New Roman, 12 point font, and 1 inch margins as an
attachment to an email. The document cannot exceed 2MB in size. Only
electronic responses to the above email address will be accepted. DOE
will not consider responses submitted by any other means.
Note: If clicking on the above link gives you an error message,
you must CUT AND PASTE the URL into your browser to reach the web
page.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Yamada, (240) 888-4568,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is renowned for its research prowess,
technology expertise, and ability to leverage American ingenuity to
invent early-stage clean energy technologies. To help meet the
Administration's climate, jobs, and economic goals, it is imperative
that our early-stage technologies are successfully guided through to
demonstration and deployment. Only then will DOE-invested technologies
activate their fullest potential to help combat the global climate
crisis. The Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) works to develop
policies, share lessons learned, and improve the Department's ability
to commercialize. At the highest level, commercialization is the
process of taking an idea and bringing it to market--or progression
across the research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D)
continuum to obtain market viability. The RDD&D continuum provides a
useful framework for mapping the stages of a technology's progression
to commercialization--starting with research into an innovative idea
and ending with commercial scale deployment.
The commercialization pathway for clean technologies is nonlinear
and often fails because of inadequate support infrastructure including
capital, tooling, as well as market, manufacturing, and industry
expertise--not because of the technology's fundamentals.
Commercialization support infrastructure on a national, regional, and
local scale are essential to ensuring economics are addressed and
critical ecosystem players are onboard. The economic and business model
requirements for deployment, as well as a technology's societal
considerations, can and should shape the technical problem definition
and design of solutions at all stages of the RDD&D continuum. OTT is
charged with thinking through this problem set and working
collaboratively across DOE to maximize our commercialization outcomes.
Given the importance and complexity of OTT's commercialization mandate,
it is essential the DOE explore and leverage all authorities granted to
the Agency. This includes a new DOE opportunity in the CHIPS and
Science Act of 2022--the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation
(FESI).
There has been much interest in the establishment of this new
foundation, and DOE has received inquiries regarding future activities
with FESI. In order to obtain a wide array of perspectives from
stakeholders, DOE, through this RFI, is seeking input on how it might
engage with the FESI and the communities it will serve.
The FESI is to be established as an independent non-profit entity
by the DOE pursuant to authorization in the CHIPS and Science Act of
2022 (section 10691) (Pub. L. 117-167), signed into law by President
Biden on August 9, 2022. The mission of FESI is two-fold: (1) to
support the mission of the Department of Energy generally; and more
specifically, (2) to increase private and philanthropic sector
investments to accelerate the commercialization of energy technologies.
The statute provides FESI with broad authority to carry out its
mission.
To accomplish this mission, Congress authorized the FESI to engage
with the private sector to raise funds that support efforts to
``create, characterize, develop, test, validate, and deploy or
commercialize innovative technologies that address crosscutting
national energy challenges''.\1\
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\1\ Section 10691, CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Pub. L. 117-
167).
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To facilitate establishment of FESI so it may begin achieving its
mission, Congress has mandated that DOE appoint and convene a Board of
Directors to include statutorily required ex officio non-voting members
from DOE, as well as appointed voting members. The CHIPS and Science
Act of 2022 identified the DOE ex officio members of the Board as the
Secretary of Energy, the Under Secretary for Science, the Under
Secretary for Nuclear Security, and the DOE Chief Commercialization
Officer.
To assist with identifying potential initial voting members of the
Board, Congress mandated DOE consult with the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to develop a list of well-qualified
individuals that represent a diverse set of stakeholders.
Following appointment of the initial Board of Directors and
establishment of FESI, the Department of Energy's Secretary will also
appoint liaisons from across DOE, including from the Office of
Technology Transitions (OTT) and the Undersecretaries for and
Infrastructure, among others, to collaborate and coordinate with the
Foundation. As specified in the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022,
collaboration and coordination with OTT and other relevant DOE offices
is essential to ensure that the FESI supports the DOE mission without
duplicating existing commercialization and other activities and
programs carried out by the DOE.
Questions seeking input on potential objectives and activities for
DOE engagement with the FESI:
To help identify and prioritize opportunities for DOE to engage and
partner with the FESI, DOE is seeking information from potential
stakeholder groups including, but not limited to:
Philanthropic and non-profit organizations.
Community stakeholders.
DOE's National Laboratory foundations.
Potential investors in companies developing technologies
aligned with the DOE mission.
Industry stakeholders, especially those representing
diverse regions, sectors, and communities.
Other potential stakeholders or collaborators of FESI.
1. Which aspects of the DOE mission \2\ and energy technology
commercialization \3\ can you identify as potentially benefitting from
FESI's involvement?
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\2\ DOE's mission statement can be found at the following link:
https://www.energy.gov/mission.
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2. Once the FESI is established, what mission areas would you
recommend DOE prioritize working on with the FESI?
3. In what ways would you recommend DOE seek support of the FESI to
carry out the mission areas identified?
4. To assist DOE in understanding and potentially better aligning
with stakeholder interest, in what ways would you recommend DOE engage
with organizations to determine what they seek to accomplish?
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5. How would you envision DOE engage with the FESI to:
a. Better support communities wishing to participate in the energy
transition?
b. Better support industry and small businesses wishing to
participate in the energy transition?
c. Drive long-term climate and clean energy strategy?
d. Broaden participation in energy technology development among
individuals from historically underrepresented groups or regions?
e. Support the commercialization of energy technologies?
f. Support workforce development?
g. Foster collaboration and partnerships with researchers from the
Federal Government, State governments, institutions of higher
education, including historically Black colleges or universities,
Tribal Colleges or Universities, and minority-serving institutions,
federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), industry,
and nonprofit organizations for the research, development,
demonstration and deployment of transformative energy and associated
technologies?
6. What potential challenges should DOE be aware of to proactively
manage given the intent to establish the FESI?
7. What other ways could the establishment of FESI support the DOE
missions? How could DOE engage effectively with the FESI on these
activities?
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Signing Authority
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2023, by Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer and Director,
Office of Technology Transitions, pursuant to delegated authority from
the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and
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compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
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an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative
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Signed in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023-03199 Filed 2-14-23; 8:45 am]
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