[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5068-5069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02804]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Efficient and Flexible 
Building Loads

AGENCY: Building Technologies Office, 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) number regarding Efficient and 
Flexible Building Loads. Through this RFI, the U.S. Department of 
Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) seeks input from 
industry to better understand where flexible building loads research 
goals can be refined to reflect market needs and inform related R&D 
activities.

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by 5:00 p.m. (ET) on March 
1, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to 
[email protected]. 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 a Microsoft Word (.docx) attachment to the email, 
and no more than five (5) pages in length per category of questions, 12 
point font, 1 inch margins. Only electronic responses will be accepted.
    Please identify your answers by responding to a specific question 
or topic if applicable. Respondents may answer as many or as few 
questions as they wish.
    DOE will not respond to individual submissions or publish publicly 
a compendium of responses. A response to this RFI will not be viewed as 
a binding commitment to develop or pursue the project or ideas 
discussed.
    Respondents are requested to provide the following information at 
the start of their response to this RFI:
     Company/institution name;
     Company/institution contact;
     Contact's address, phone number, and email address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Question may be addressed to 
[email protected] or to Monica Neukomm, (202) 845-3168. Further 
instructions 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, building owners and operators, builders, utilities, and other 
stakeholders on key issues related to the energy flexibility that 
building technologies can provide. This information will be used by BTO 
for strategic planning of the broader grid-interactive efficient 
building technologies R&D portfolio. This is solely a request for 
information and not a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). DOE 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 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-0002070] at: 
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

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    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 January 30, 2019.
 David Nemtzow,
Director of Building Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2019-02804 Filed 2-19-19; 8:45 am]
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