[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 153 (Thursday, August 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38958-38959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16998]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Planning and Operation 
Models and Data Analytics for Solar Grid Integration

AGENCY: Solar Energy Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Request for information.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office 
(SETO) is issuing this request for information (RFI) to solicit 
feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government 
agencies, and other stakeholders. This RFI will inform SETO's strategic 
planning on research related to the integration of distributed solar 
energy resources. Specifically, this RFI will inform strategies 
relating to the modeling, monitoring, predicting, and controlling of 
solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. As the penetration of solar PV on the 
grid grows, these strategies will become more important as grid 
operators consider how solar adoption

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impacts grid planning and operations technologies.

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received no later than 12 p.m. (ET) 
on August 30, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to 
[email protected]. Responses to this RFI must be submitted 
electronically and 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 have 
12 point font and 1 inch margins. Only electronic responses will be 
accepted.
    Please identify answers by responding to a specific question or 
topic if applicable. Respondents may answer as many or as few questions 
as desired at their discretion. The complete RFI document DE-FOA-
0002157 is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Mr. 
Kemal Celik, (510) 316-6513 or [email protected]. Further 
instructions can be found in the RFI document DE-FOA-0002157 posted on 
EERE Exchange.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SETO is seeking feedback from industry, 
academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other 
stakeholders. The main focus is enabling high penetration of 
distributed behind-the-meter (BTM) and small-scale solar generation and 
decrease its curtailment through better data acquisition and its 
numerical analysis. Responders are welcome to answer all or subsets of 
the questions. The RFI DE-FOA-0002157 is available at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

Confidential Business Information

    Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting information that 
he or she believes to be confidential and exempt by law from public 
disclosure should submit via email two well marked copies: One copy of 
the document marked ``confidential'' including all the information 
believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document marked ``non-
confidential'' with the information believed to be confidential 
deleted. DOE will make its own determination about the confidential 
status of the information and treat it according to its determination.
    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 August 1, 2019.
Charles Gay,
Director, Solar Energy Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2019-16998 Filed 8-7-19; 8:45 am]
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