[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 80 (Friday, April 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22959-22960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09469]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Agency Request for Comments on Draft Solicitation for Renewable
Energy Projects and Efficient Energy Projects
AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Loan Programs Office (LPO) of the Department of Energy
(DOE) announces availability of a draft of a potential future
solicitation for Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects
and Efficient Energy Projects. LPO invites comments regarding the draft
of the potential future solicitation.
DATES: Comments regarding the draft of the potential future
solicitation must be received on or before May 27, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be sent to Peter W. Davidson, Executive
Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. The draft solicitation
is available on LPO's Web site at http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter W. Davidson,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is considering a potential future
solicitation for Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects
and Efficient Energy Projects. Should DOE choose to proceed which such
a solicitation, applicants would be invited to apply for loan
guarantees from DOE to finance projects and facilities located in the
United States that employ innovative renewable energy and energy
efficiency technologies (``Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient
Energy Projects''). DOE may make up to Two Billion Five Hundred Million
Dollars ($2,500,000,000) in loan guarantee authority available under
the proposed solicitation for Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient
Energy Projects, plus an additional amount that can be imputed based on
the availability of an appropriation for the credit subsidy cost of
such imputed loan guarantee authority. The amount of total loan
guarantee authority that could be available pursuant to the proposed
solicitation will depend on credit subsidy rates.
DOE is considering including in the potential future solicitation
projects or facilities that use:
(a) Renewable energy systems;
(b) efficient electrical generation, transmission, and distribution
technologies; or
(c) efficient end-use energy technologies;
(within the meaning of those terms in Section 1703(b)(1), (6), and (7)
of Title XVII). Should DOE choose to proceed which such a solicitation,
DOE would look favorably on eligible projects that will have a
catalytic effect on the commercial deployment of future Renewable
Energy Projects and/or Efficient Energy Projects that replicate or
extend the innovative feature of the eligible project. While comments
are sought on all aspects of the draft solicitation, DOE is
particularly interested in comments regarding technologies that that
will have a catalytic effect on the commercial deployment of future
Renewable Energy Projects and/or Efficient Energy Projects that
replicate or extend the innovative feature of the eligible project.
LPO is announcing a draft of a potential future solicitation for
Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient
Energy Projects. LPO invites comments regarding the draft of the
potential future solicitation.
Authority: Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42
U.S.C. 16511 et seq.).
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Issued in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2014.
April Stephenson,
Chief Operating Officer, Loan Programs Office.
[FR Doc. 2014-09469 Filed 4-24-14; 8:45 am]
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