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1 18 CFR 4.34(b)(5). 

1 https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/ 

power-sales-and-markets/increasing-efficiencythrough-improved-software. 

2 Grid-Enhancing Technologies, Docket No. 

AD19–19–000. 

3 Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Docket 

No. AD19–15–000. 

4 Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Order No. 

881, 177 FERC ¶ 61,179 (2021). 

5 Implementation of Dynamic Line Ratings, 187 

FERC ¶ 61,201 (2024). 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2392–041] 

Ampersand Gilman Hydro, LP; Notice 

of Reasonable Period of Time for 

Water Quality Certification Application 

On January 24, 2025, the Vermont 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation (Vermont DEC) submitted 

to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) notice that it 

received a request for a Clean Water Act 

section 401(a)(1) water quality 

certification as defined in 40 CFR 121.5, 

from Ampersand Gilman Hydro, LP, in 

conjunction with the above captioned 

project on January 24, 2025. Pursuant to 

section 4.34(b)(5) of the Commission’s 

regulations,1 we hereby notify Vermont 

DEC of the following: 

Date of Receipt of the Certification 

Request: January 24, 2025. 

Reasonable Period of Time to Act on 

the Certification Request: One year, 

January 24, 2026. 

If Vermont DEC fails or refuses to act 

on the water quality certification request 

on or before the above date, then the 

certifying authority is deemed waived 

pursuant to section 401(a)(1) of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1). 

Dated: January 29, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02227 Filed 2–4–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–12–016] 

Increasing Market and Planning 

Efficiency Through Improved Software; 

Notice of Technical Conference: 

Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead 

Market and Planning Efficiency 

Through Improved Software 

Take notice that Commission staff 

will convene a technical conference on 

July 8, 9, and 10, 2025 to discuss 

opportunities for increasing real-time 

and day-ahead market and planning 

efficiency through improved software. A 

detailed agenda with the list of 

presentation dates and times for the 

selected speakers will be published on 

the Commission’s website 1 and in 

eLibrary after April 16, 2025. 

This conference will bring together 

experts from diverse backgrounds 

including electric power system 

operators, software developers, 

government, research centers, and 

academia. The conference will bring 

these experts together for the purposes 

of stimulating discussion, sharing 

information, and identifying fruitful 

avenues for research on improving 

software for increased efficiency and 

reliability of the bulk power system. 

This conference will build on 

discussions at prior conferences in this 

proceeding by focusing on topics 

identified as important to market 

efficiency in those conferences. Broadly, 

such topics fall into the following 

categories: 

(1) Software for improving the 

resource adequacy process, including: 

software for improving computational 

tractability of resource adequacy and 

ease of use of resource adequacy tools, 

software for improving the fidelity of 

representing generators and loads in 

resource adequacy modeling, software 

for evaluating trade-offs between 

generation and transmission, software 

for implementing and evaluating new 

reliability metrics like expected 

unserved energy (EUE), software for 

implementing novel resource adequacy 

accreditation methods, and software for 

including climate change and extreme 

weather impacts on resource adequacy. 

(2) Software for improving the 

efficiency of the interconnection 

process, including improved 

interconnection studies, software for 

automating parts of the interconnection 

process, software for expediting power 

flow analyses related to interconnection, 

etc. 

(3) Software for implementing 

advanced computing methods such as 

artificial intelligence (AI) or machine 

learning into existing or novel 

applications for improving real-time and 

day-ahead market and planning 

efficiency. 

(4) Software related to grid-enhancing 

technologies, such as those described in 

Docket Nos. AD19–19 2 and AD19–15,3

including optimal transmission 

switching, power flow controls, any 

software related to implementing the 

Commission’s rulemaking regarding line 

ratings in Order No. 881,4 and any 

software related to dynamic line ratings 

as described in the Commission’s 

Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking on dynamic line ratings in 

Docket No. RM24–6–000.5

(5) Software for improving the 

performance of generating resources’ 

ability and incentives to follow dispatch 

instructions and for eliminating 

unnecessary make-whole payments, 

including software for ensuring that 

product awards reflect prevailing 

transmission constraints and 

capabilities of resources to deliver 

awarded products. 

(6) Software for better modeling and 

computation of resources with distinct 

operating characteristics such as storage 

resources, multi-stage/multiconfiguration resources, hybrid 

resources, aggregations of Distributed 

Energy Resources (DERs) (including 

DER Management Systems, or DERMS), 

and others. Presentations on this topic 

should focus on alternative formulations 

and solution methods for market 

models. 

(7) Approaches to addressing 

challenges, such as delays, associated 

with deploying software to implement 

market reforms or operational 

improvements to wholesale electricity 

markets. 

(8) Other improvements in algorithms, 

model formulations, hardware 

advancements, or other related 

approaches that may allow for 

improvements to the bulk power system 

in market efficiency and enhanced 

reliability. 

The conference will take place in a 

hybrid format, with presenters and 

attendees allowed to participate either 

in person or virtually. Further details on 

both in-person and virtual participation 

will be released prior to the conference. 

Attendees must register through the 

Commission’s website on or before June 

10, 2025. Access to the conference 

(virtual or in-person) may not be 

available to those who do not register. 

Speaker nominations must be 

submitted on or before March 21, 2025 

through the Commission’s website by 

providing the proposed speaker’s 

contact information along with a title, 

abstract, and list of contributing authors 

for the proposed presentation. Proposed 

presentations should be related to the 

topics discussed above. Speakers and 

presentations will be selected to ensure 

relevance to those topics and to 

accommodate time constraints. 


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In previous years, the Commission 

has received nominations for more 

presentations than could be 

accommodated, and we anticipate that 

may be the case this year as well. 

Speakers are encouraged to submit new 

findings and novel work to ensure that 

the conference reflects the latest 

research. Presentation selections may 

prioritize nominations that cover topics 

beyond the research covered in previous 

years’ conferences. If a nomination 

builds on previous years’ 

presentation(s), authors are encouraged 

to explain in their abstract what new 

ground is being covered. Presentation 

proposals that involve many of the same 

co-authors and have similar contents 

may be combined into a single proposal 

for one presentation. 

All presentations materials (e.g., 

presentation slides) are due no later 

than 5:00 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2025. 

Before 1:00 p.m. EDT on July 7, 2025, 

Commission staff will work with 

presenters to provide quality assurance 

that their presentation materials are 

prepared, formatted correctly, and ready 

for delivery during the conference. All 

presentation materials submitted before 

1:00 p.m. on July 7, 2025 will be posted 

to the Commission website before the 

conference. Any updated presentation 

materials submitted after 1:00 p.m. on 

July 7, 2025 will be posted to the 

Commission website after the 

conference; however, the live 

conference may use presentation 

material versions submitted prior to the 

deadline rather than late submissions. 

The Commission will accept 

comments following the conference, 

with a deadline of August 10, 2025. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on 

the Commission’s website that enables 

subscribers to receive email notification 

when a document is added to a 

subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please 

email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information about these 

conferences, please contact: 

Sarah McKinley (Logistical 

Information), Office of External 

Affairs, (202) 502–8004, 

Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov 

Monica Ferrera (Technical Information), 

Office of Energy Policy and 

Innovation, (202) 502–8687, 

Monica.Ferrera@ferc.gov 

Dated: January 29, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02226 Filed 2–4–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2302–101] 

Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC; 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing, Scoping Meetings, and 

Environmental Site Review; Soliciting 

Motions To Intervene and Protests; 

and Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

application has been filed with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–2302–101. 

c. Date filed: August 28, 2024. 

d. Applicant: Brookfield White Pine 

Hydro LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Lewiston Falls 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: On the Androscoggin 

River in the Cities of Lewiston and 

Auburn, and the Town of Durham, 

Androscoggin County, Maine. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Luke T. 

Anderson, Brookfield Renewable, 150 

Main Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240; 

(207) 755–5613; email at 

Luke.Anderson@

brookfieldrenewable.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Lauren Townson at 

(202) 502–8572, or Lauren.Townson@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments and motions to intervene and 

protests: March 31, 2025. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments and motions to intervene and 

protests using the Commission’s eFiling 

system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can 

submit brief comments up to 6,000 

characters, without prior registration, 

using the eComment system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you 

may submit a paper copy. Submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. All 

filings must clearly identify the project 

name and docket number on the first 

page: Lewiston Falls Project (P–2302– 

101). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

files comments or documents with the 

Commission relating to the merits of an 

issue that may affect the responsibilities 

of a particular resource agency, they 

must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency. 

k. This application has been accepted 

for filing, but is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. Project Description: The Lewiston 

Falls Project consists of: (1) a dam 

consisting of 5 distinct sections: (a) a 

154-foot-long stone masonry section 

topped with a single rubber dam for a 

total elevation of 169.07 feet, (b) a 279- 

foot-long stone masonry section topped 

with a single rubber dam for a total 

elevation of 169.07 feet, (c) a 161-footlong stone masonry section topped with 

a single rubber dam for a total elevation 

of 168.60 feet, (d) a 162-foot-long stone 

masonry section topped with a single 

rubber dam for a total elevation of 

168.60 feet, and (e) a 57-foot-long 

concrete section topped with 1.34-foothigh flashboards for a total elevation of 

168.17 feet; (2) a 2.5-mile-long, 169-acre 

impoundment at a full pond elevation of 

168.17 feet; (3) an 85.16-foot-long, 60- 

foot-high reinforced concrete intake 

with 3.25-inch spaced trashracks; (4) 

four 16.8-foot wide intake tubes, each 

pair converging into one; (4) a 

reinforced concrete powerhouse 

containing two vertical Kaplan turbine 

generators for a total installed capacity 

of 28.44 megawatts; (5) a 400-foot-long, 

75-foot-wide excavated tailrace; (6) a 

111.6-foot-long, 26.3-foot-wide masonry 

canal gatehouse located at the southeast 

corner of the impoundment diverting 

flow to a canal system; (7) a 12.5 to 34.5- 

kilovolt (kV) transformer; (8) a 125-footlong underground transmission line 

connected to Central Maine Power’s 

distribution system; and (8) appurtenant 

facilities. The project average annual 

generation between 2013 and 2023 was 

157,614 megawatt-hours (MWh). 


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