Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 49 / Friday, March 13, 2015 / Notices 13365 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Wave Energy Prize 

AGENCY: Wind and Water Power 

Technologies Office, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of release of draft 

competition rules for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) gives notice of the 

availability of the draft Wave Energy 

Prize competition Rules and Terms and 

Conditions and requests public 

comment on the Rules and Terms and 

Conditions. The prize is designed to 

achieve game-changing performance 

enhancements to wave energy 

conversion (WEC) devices, establishing 

a pathway to sweeping cost reductions 

on a commercial scale. The prize 

consists of three phases—design, build, 

and test and evaluation. Prize purses to 

the winner(s): Grand Prize ($1,500,000), 

2nd Place Finisher ($500,000), and 3rd 

Place Finisher ($250,000). 

DATES: DOE intends to launch the Wave 

Energy Prize in April 2015. DOE is 

currently accepting public comments on 

the draft Prize Rules and Terms and 

Conditions through March 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons can find 

the draft Prize Rules and Terms and 

Conditions at waveenergyprize.org 

under the ‘‘About’’ tab. To provide 

feedback, please submit questions and 

comments to: info@waveenergyprize.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

America COMPETES Reauthorization 

Act of 2010 (America COMPETES), 

Public Law 111–358, enacted January 4, 

2011, authorizes Federal agencies to 

issue competitions to stimulate 

innovations in technology, education, 

and science. The Wave Energy Prize 

leverages the America COMPETES Act 

to provide incentives to design, build, 

and test innovative WEC devices using 

novel WEC concepts. 

DOE intends to launch the Wave 

Energy Prize, a public prize challenge 

sponsored by DOE’s Water Power 

Program, in April 2015 and is currently 

accepting public comments on the draft 

Rules and Terms and Conditions. The 

prize is designed to increase the 

diversity of organizations involved in 

WEC technology development, while 

motivating and inspiring existing 

stakeholders. DOE envisions this 

competition will achieve game-changing 

performance enhancements to WEC 

devices, establishing a pathway to 

sweeping cost reductions on a 

commercial scale. 

The wave energy industry is young 

and is experiencing many new 

innovations as evidenced by a sustained 

growth in patent activity. While the 

private industry is developing these 

early-concept WEC devices through 

design and benchtop prototype testing, 

funding is hard to secure for 

performance testing and evaluation of 

WEC devices in wave tanks at a 

meaningful scale. This is a problem for 

the industry since scaled WEC 

prototype tank testing, validation, and 

evaluation are key steps in the 

advancement of WEC technologies 

through the technical readiness levels to 

reach commercialization. 

Goal of the Wave Energy Prize: The 

Wave Energy Prize will encourage the 

development of more efficient WEC 

devices that double the energy captured 

from ocean waves, which in turn will 

reduce the cost of wave energy, making 

it more competitive with traditional 

energy solutions. 

Economic impact of the Wave Energy 

Prize: A successful Wave Energy Prize 

could jump-start private sector 

innovation critical to the country’s longterm economic growth, energy security, 

and international competitiveness in the 

wave energy conversion sector. 

Why participate in the Wave Energy 

Prize? The Wave Energy Prize seeks to 

attract innovative ideas from developers 

new to the industry and next-generation 

ideas from existing developers by 

offering a monetary prize purse and 

providing an opportunity for tank 

testing and evaluation of scaled WEC 

device prototypes at the U.S. Navy’s 

Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin 

(MASK) facility in Carderock, MD. 

Eligibility: U.S. entities are able to 

participate in the Wave Energy Prize. 

This includes U.S. persons and 

companies as well as foreign companies 

that are incorporated in and maintain a 

primary place of business in the United 

States. Full eligibility requirements for 

the Wave Energy Prize are set in 

accordance with those established by 

America COMPETES, and are fully 

outlined in the draft Wave Energy Prize 

Rules document available at: 

waveenergyprize.org. DOE is accepting 

public comments on these draft Rules 

and the draft Terms and Conditions 

through March 20, 2015. See 

waveenergyprize.org for more 

information. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 10, 

2015. 

Jose Zayas, 

Wind and Water Power Technologies Office 

Director, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05770 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP15–90–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 

Notice of Application 

March 4, 2015. 

Take notice that on February 19, 2015, 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas 

Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, 

Houston, Texas 77056, filed in the 

above referenced docket an application 

pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA), and Part 157 of the 

Commission’s regulations requesting 

authorization to construct and operate 

the Gulf Markets Expansion Project 

(Project). Specifically, the Project will 

enable Texas Eastern to provide 650 

MMcf/d of firm transportation service to 

the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana and 

Texas, as well as to provide mainline 

markets with the opportunity to access 

growing supply basins in the Northeast, 

all as more fully set forth in the 

application which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. The filing is available for 

review at the Commission in the Public 

Reference Room or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Web site web at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Any questions concerning this 

application may be directed to Bill 

Hammons, P.O. Box 1396, Houston, 

Texas 77251, by telephone at (713) 215– 

2130. 

The Project consists of the 

construction of one new compressor 

station at Provident City in Lavaca 

County, Texas; the installation of a new 

compressor unit at an existing 

compression station in Opelousas, 

Louisiana; and other facilities 

modifications. Texas Eastern proposes 

rolled-in rate treatment for the Project, 

and to charge its existing recourse rates 

for service on the Project. The cost of 

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