Department of Energy March 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Societe Generale Energy Corp. (SGEC) has applied for authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

The EIA is soliciting comments on the proposed revision and 3- year extension of the surveys in the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package. The surveys covered by this request include: Form EIA-176, ``Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition'' EIA-191M, ``Monthly Underground Gas Storage Report'' EIA-191A, ``Annual Underground Gas Storage Report'' EIA-757, ``Natural Gas Processing Plant Survey'' EIA-857, ``Monthly Report of Natural Gas Purchases and Deliveries to Consumers'' EIA-895, ``Annual Quantity and Value of Natural Gas Production Report'' EIA-910M, ``Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey'' and EIA- 910A, Annual Natural Gas Marketer Survey'' EIA-912, ``Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report''

The EIA has submitted the Coal Program Package to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or Department) will hold a public meeting to discuss and receive comments on the following issues: The equipment classes DOE plans to analyze for the purpose of considering the amendment of energy conservation standards for distribution transformers; the analytical framework, models, and tools DOE is using to evaluate standards for this type of equipment; the results of preliminary analyses performed by DOE for this equipment; and potential energy conservation standard levels derived from these analyses that DOE could consider for this equipment. DOE also encourages interested parties to submit written comments on these subjects. To inform stakeholders and facilitate the public meeting and comment process, DOE has prepared an agenda, a preliminary technical support document (TSD), and briefing materials, which are available at: https://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/appliance_standards/comm ercial/ distribution_transformers.html.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of the decision and order (Case No. CW-016) that grants to LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. (LG) a waiver from the DOE clothes washer test procedure for determining the energy consumption of clothes washers. Under today's decision and order, LG shall be required to test and rate its clothes washers with larger clothes containers using an alternate test procedure that takes the larger capacities into account when measuring energy consumption.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is proposing to revise its regulations to remedy undue discrimination in the procurement of frequency regulation service in the organized wholesale electricity markets. The emergence of technologies capable of responding more quickly than the generators that have historically provided frequency regulation service has prompted the Commission to evaluate market rules to ensure that they are not unduly discriminatory or fail to provide just and reasonable compensation for the service being provided. If found, the Commission proposes to remedy the undue discrimination by requiring a uniform price for regulation capacity paid to all cleared resources and a performance payment for the provision of frequency regulation, with such payment reflecting a resource's accuracy of performance. This proposed action helps to ensure that market rules do not present unnecessary barriers to the participation of all resource types in the wholesale ancillary services markets. The Commission seeks comment on the proposed regulations.