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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 80 (Friday, April 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22959-22960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09469]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Agency Request for Comments on Draft Solicitation for Renewable 
Energy Projects and Efficient Energy Projects

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Loan Programs Office (LPO) of the Department of Energy 
(DOE) announces availability of a draft of a potential future 
solicitation for Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects 
and Efficient Energy Projects. LPO invites comments regarding the draft 
of the potential future solicitation.

DATES: Comments regarding the draft of the potential future 
solicitation must be received on or before May 27, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be sent to Peter W. Davidson, Executive 
Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. The draft solicitation 
is available on LPO's Web site at http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter W. Davidson, 
LPOREEESoliciationQuestions@hq.doe.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is considering a potential future 
solicitation for Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects 
and Efficient Energy Projects. Should DOE choose to proceed which such 
a solicitation, applicants would be invited to apply for loan 
guarantees from DOE to finance projects and facilities located in the 
United States that employ innovative renewable energy and energy 
efficiency technologies (``Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient 
Energy Projects''). DOE may make up to Two Billion Five Hundred Million 
Dollars ($2,500,000,000) in loan guarantee authority available under 
the proposed solicitation for Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient 
Energy Projects, plus an additional amount that can be imputed based on 
the availability of an appropriation for the credit subsidy cost of 
such imputed loan guarantee authority. The amount of total loan 
guarantee authority that could be available pursuant to the proposed 
solicitation will depend on credit subsidy rates.
    DOE is considering including in the potential future solicitation 
projects or facilities that use:
    (a) Renewable energy systems;
    (b) efficient electrical generation, transmission, and distribution 
technologies; or
    (c) efficient end-use energy technologies;

(within the meaning of those terms in Section 1703(b)(1), (6), and (7) 
of Title XVII). Should DOE choose to proceed which such a solicitation, 
DOE would look favorably on eligible projects that will have a 
catalytic effect on the commercial deployment of future Renewable 
Energy Projects and/or Efficient Energy Projects that replicate or 
extend the innovative feature of the eligible project. While comments 
are sought on all aspects of the draft solicitation, DOE is 
particularly interested in comments regarding technologies that that 
will have a catalytic effect on the commercial deployment of future 
Renewable Energy Projects and/or Efficient Energy Projects that 
replicate or extend the innovative feature of the eligible project.
    LPO is announcing a draft of a potential future solicitation for 
Federal Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects and Efficient 
Energy Projects. LPO invites comments regarding the draft of the 
potential future solicitation.

     Authority: Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 16511 et seq.).

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    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2014.
April Stephenson,
 Chief Operating Officer, Loan Programs Office.
[FR Doc. 2014-09469 Filed 4-24-14; 8:45 am]
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