[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13138-13139]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6018]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy


Motor Challenge Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Industrial Technologies.

ACTION: Notice of Motor Challenge Roundtable on Market Transformation 
Strategies for Electric Motor Systems.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's Motor Challenge Program is 
convening a Roundtable on Market Transformation. The purpose of the 
Roundtable is to draw from the experience of the roundtable 
participants and seek their independent opinions and ideas for 
developing and implementing the market transformation aspect of the 
Motor Challenge Program. The roundtable will be comprised of 60 experts 
from across the country.

DATES: Tuesday, April 18, 1995, 1:00-5:30 PM; and Wednesday, April 19, 
1995, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

ADDRESSES: Hyatt Regency O'Hare, 9300 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Rosemount, 
IL 60018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Motor Challenge Information 
Clearinghouse 925 Plum Street, SE, [[Page 13139]] Bldg. 4, Olympia, WA 
98504, 1-800-862-2086.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Market Transformation is an industry-driven 
process whereby industrial users, equipment suppliers, utilities, 
government agencies and the efficiency community work to facilitate and 
implement initiatives aimed at enhancing the market for higher 
performance electric motor system equipment that meets user performance 
and service needs.
    Market transformation is envisioned to be a series of well-
coordinated market enabling and technology commercialization 
activities. Many of the activities will be designed to encourage the 
development and adoption of enhanced products and services to capture 
systems integration opportunities which represent the vast majority of 
energy savings opportunities.

I. Market Transformation Strategies for Electric Motor Systems 
Report

    Over the past year the Department of Energy's Motor Challenge 
Program has been working with industry, utilities and other 
organizations to gather input and guide the development of strategies 
to capitalize on motor systems efficiency opportunities. Drawing on 
inputs received from the public over the past year, DOE has prepared a 
draft report on Market Transformation Strategies for Electric Motor 
Systems. The contents of the report will be the focus of the 
discussions at the Roundtable.
    A. Topics presented in the draft report include:
    (1) Description of the market-oriented process employed to 
formulate the market transformation strategies;
    (2) Identification of factors that can produce market change, and 
the characteristics of a transformed market;
    (3) Identification of a series of consistent, voluntary ``win-win'' 
strategies for transforming the three targeted industrial market 
segments;
    (4) Identification of the potential roles of private and public 
sector market players, and proposed partnerships;
    (5) Estimated direct impacts and indirect benefits; and
    (6) Discussion of how market players can get involved in the market 
transformation process.

II. Market Transformation Process

    With regard to Motor Systems, the market transformation process 
involves the development and promotion of economically viable energy 
efficiency products and services, development of the market 
infrastructure, and enhancing awareness of the benefits of developing 
and using efficient and environmentally friendly technologies, products 
and services.
    Examples of strategies to sustain transformation of the motor 
systems market include:
    (A) Enabling actions to strengthen/develop market infrastructure:
    (1) Voluntary specifications & protocols--(e.g., performance 
measurement and test procedures, guidelines, certification, product 
labeling, product directories, etc.)
    (2) Marketing & consumer education of the systems approach concept
    (3) Information and decision tools
    (4) Showcase Demonstrations & field validation
    (5) Motor system management training (motors, drives, and motor 
systems)
    (B) Direct market actions to aid in product & services 
commercialization:
    (1) Voluntary commitments & recognition
    (2) Market aggregation mechanisms (common user specifications, 
purchasing commitments to create guaranteed markets)
    (3) Performance system ortimization services
    (4) Voluntary product labeling
    (5) Government procurement (Federal, federal/state procurement 
partnerships)
    (6) Technology development (improved engineering designs that meet 
user-driven performance characteristics)
    (7) Activities encouraging more rapid retirement of inefficient 
equipment by end-users

Documents

    The DOE draft report on Market Transformation Strategies for 
Electric Motor Systems, and other documents relating to the Roundtable 
meeting will be publicly available at the meeting, and thereafter 
available for public inspection at the Department of Energy, Freedom of 
Information Reading Room, Room 1E190, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., 
Washington, DC 20585, between the hours 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on February 23, 1995.
Kurt D. Sisson,
Acting Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Industrial 
Technologies, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 95-6018 Filed 3-9-95; 8:45 am]
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