[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 149 (Thursday, August 2, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37807-37808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-16578]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on H2@Scale (Hydrogen at 
Scale): Determining Opportunities To Facilitate Wide-Scale Hydrogen 
Adoption for Energy Security and Economic Growth

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy (DOE).

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) on H2@Scale (Hydrogen at Scale): 
Determining Opportunities to Facilitate Wide-Scale Hydrogen Adoption 
for Energy Security and Economic Growth. The Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is specifically interested in 
information to quantify the increasing industrial demand for hydrogen, 
to identify and quantify the available domestic resources capable of 
generating sufficient hydrogen to sustainably meet the demand in the 
near- to long-terms across multiple sectors, and to identify 
opportunities to leverage current industrial infrastructure to better 
meet the growing demands for hydrogen across sectors.

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. 
(ET) on October 31, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit comments using the 
Online Response Collector found at the specified web link included in 
the RFI document. Alternatively, responses can be submitted as an 
attachment to an email addressed to 
[email protected] with ``H2@Scale RFI'' in the 
subject line. Email attachments can be provided as a Microsoft Word 
(.docx) file or an Adobe PDF (.pdf) file, prepared in accordance with 
the detailed instructions in the RFI. Documents submitted 
electronically should clearly indicate which topic areas and specific 
questions are being addressed, and should be limited to no more than 
10MB in size. The complete RFI [DE-FOA-0001965] document is located at 
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to 
[email protected] or to Eric Miller at (202) 287-
5829. Further instruction can be found in the RFI document posted on 
EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The H2@Scale initiative aims to develop and

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enable transformational technologies that can sustainably produce and 
efficiently utilize large quantities of affordable hydrogen to 
collectively enable energy storage, energy security, grid resiliency, 
domestic employment, and American dominance in energy innovation. The 
purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, 
research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on 
opportunities and strategies for expanding and diversifying current 
hydrogen supply options, and for leveraging and multi-purposing current 
industrial infrastructure to accommodate widespread hydrogen usage. The 
RFI seeks input in five topic areas: Hydrogen supply expansion and 
diversification; expansion of markets requiring significant hydrogen 
demand; leveraging and/or multi-purposing industries and infrastructure 
to facilitate widespread adoption of hydrogen; potential sponsored 
competitions to incentivize widespread adoption of hydrogen across 
multiple sectors; and other innovative approaches to help enable 
H2@Scale.
    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-0001965] at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2018.
 Sunita Satyapal,
Director, Fuel Cell Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-16578 Filed 8-1-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6450-01-P