[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 1, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 37489]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-16454]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on National Wind 
Technology Center Facility and Infrastructure Investments

AGENCY: Wind Energy Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy

ACTION: Request for information (RFI).

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on 
its Request for Information (RFI) number DE-FOA-0001959 regarding the 
National Wind Technology Center. The purpose of this RFI is to address 
the growing research and development (R&D) interest in the use of the 
National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) National Wind 
Technology Center (NWTC) facilities for renewable energy, energy 
storage, and grid integration technology development and testing.

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by no later than 5:00pm 
(ET) on August 27, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to 
[email protected]. Include National Wind Technology Center 
Facility and Infrastructure Investments in the subject of the title. 
Responses must be provided as attachments to an email. It is 
recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be 
compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Responses must be 
provided as an attachment to the email, and no more than 10 pages in 
length, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. Only electronic responses will 
be accepted. The complete RFI document is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Gary 
Nowakowski who can be reached at (720) 356-1732 or 
[email protected]. Further instruction can be found in the RFI 
document posted on EERE Exchange.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this RFI is to solicit 
feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government 
agencies, and other stakeholders on energy efficiency and renewable 
energy R&D testing needs and the associated equipment, facilities and 
infrastructure needed to ensure continued world class energy technology 
development at the NWTC. This is solely a request for information and 
NOT a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). EERE is not accepting 
applications. The RFI is available at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

Confidential Business Information

    Because information received in response to this RFI may be used to 
structure future programs, funding and/or otherwise be made available 
to the public, respondents are strongly advised to not include any 
information in their responses that might be considered business 
sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential. If, however, a 
respondent chooses to submit business sensitive, proprietary, or 
otherwise confidential information, it must be clearly and 
conspicuously marked as such in the response as detailed in the RFI 
[DE-FOA-0001959] at: https://eere-exchange.energy.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 that 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.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2018.
Valerie Reed,
Acting Director, Wind Energy Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-16454 Filed 7-31-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6450-01-P