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5The 2015 LNG Export Study, dated Oct. 29, 

2015, is available at: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/

files/2015/12/f27/20151113_macro_impact_of_lng_

exports_0.pdf. 

6The Addendum and related documents are 

available at: http://energy.gov/fe/draft-addendumenvironmental-review-documents-concerningexports-natural-gas-united-states. 

behalf of DOE (2015 LNG Export 

Study).5

Additionally, DOE will consider the 

following environmental document: 

Addendum to Environmental Review 

Documents Concerning Exports of 

Natural Gas From the United States, 79 

FR 48132 (Aug. 15, 2014).6 Parties that 

may oppose this Application should 

address these issues in their comments 

and/or protests, as well as other issues 

deemed relevant to the Application. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., 

requires DOE to give appropriate 

consideration to the environmental 

effects of its proposed decisions. No 

final decision will be issued in this 

proceeding until DOE has met its 

environmental responsibilities. 

Public Comment Procedures 

In response to this Notice, any person 

may file a protest, comments, or a 

motion to intervene or notice of 

intervention, as applicable. Due to the 

complexity of the issues raised by the 

Applicant, interested parties will be 

provided 60 days from the date of 

publication of this Notice in which to 

submit their comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, or notices of 

intervention. 

Any person wishing to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene or notice of intervention. The 

filing of comments or a protest with 

respect to the Application will not serve 

to make the commenter or protestant a 

party to the proceeding, although 

protests and comments received from 

persons who are not parties will be 

considered in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken on the 

Application. All protests, comments, 

motions to intervene, or notices of 

intervention must meet the 

requirements specified by the 

regulations in 10 CFR part 590. 

Filings may be submitted using one of 

the following methods: (1) Emailing the 

filing to fergas@hq.doe.gov, with FE 

Docket No. 15–168–LNG in the title 

line; (2) mailing an original and three 

paper copies of the filing to the Office 

of Regulation and International 

Engagement at the address listed in 

ADDRESSES; or (3) hand delivering an 

original and three paper copies of the 

filing to the Office of Regulation and 

International Engagement at the address 

listed in ADDRESSES. All filings must 

include a reference to FE Docket No. 

15–168–LNG. PLEASE Note: If 

submitting a filing via email, please 

include all related documents and 

attachments (e.g., exhibits) in the 

original email correspondence. Please 

do not include any active hyperlinks or 

password protection in any of the 

documents or attachments related to the 

filing. All electronic filings submitted to 

DOE must follow these guidelines to 

ensure that all documents are filed in a 

timely manner. Any hardcopy filing 

submitted greater in length than 50 

pages must also include, at the time of 

the filing, a digital copy on disk of the 

entire submission. 

A decisional record on the 

Application will be developed through 

responses to this notice by parties, 

including the parties’ written comments 

and replies thereto. Additional 

procedures will be used as necessary to 

achieve a complete understanding of the 

facts and issues. If an additional 

procedure is scheduled, notice will be 

provided to all parties. If no party 

requests additional procedures, a final 

Opinion and Order may be issued based 

on the official record, including the 

Application and responses filed by 

parties pursuant to this notice, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 590.316. 

The Application is available for 

inspection and copying in the Office of 

Regulation and International 

Engagement docket room, Room 3E– 

042, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. The docket 

room is open between the hours of 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

The Application and any filed 

protests, motions to intervene or notice 

of interventions, and comments will 

also be available electronically by going 

to the following DOE/FE Web address: 

http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/

gasregulation/index.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 9, 

2016. 

John A. Anderson, 

Director, Office of Regulation and 

International Engagement, Office of Oil and 

Natural Gas. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03093 Filed 2–12–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Energy Savings Performance Contract 

Energy Sales Agreement 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Management 

Program (FEMP), Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy 

Management Program Office (FEMP), 

within the U.S. Department of Energy 

(DOE), published a notice, ‘‘Request for 

Comments on Including Onsite 

Renewable Energy Generation under 

Energy Savings Performance Contracts,’’ 

on its Web site to obtain information on 

potential obstacles associated with the 

implementation of privately-owned 

onsite renewable energy generation 

projects under the federal energy 

savings performance contract (ESPC) 

authority, including potential issues 

with regard to project eligibility for the 

federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) 

and the use of the ESPC ENABLE 

Program for such projects. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

March 2, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to 

submit comments electronically to: 

tracy.logan@ee.doe.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include ‘‘Feb 2016 ESPC Request 

for Comments’’ in the subject of the 

message. The notice is available at 

http://energy.gov/eere/femp/downloads/

request-comments-including-onsiterenewable-energy-generation-underenergy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tracy Logan, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Federal Energy Management 

Program (EE–2L), 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585; 

email: Tracy.Logan@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMP 

published a notice, ‘‘Request for 

Comments on Including Onsite 

Renewable Energy Generation under 

Energy Savings Performance Contracts,’’ 

to obtain information on potential 

obstacles associated with the 

implementation of privately-owned 

onsite renewable energy generation 

projects under the federal energy 

savings performance contract (ESPC) 

authority, including potential issues 

with regard to project eligibility for the 

federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) 

and the use of the ESPC ENABLE 

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Program for such projects. The notice is 

available at http://energy.gov/eere/

femp/downloads/request-commentsincluding-onsite-renewable-energygeneration-under-energy. 

FEMP invites all interested parties to 

submit in writing by March 2, 2016, 

comments and information on matters 

addressed in the notice. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 3, 

2016. 

Hayes Jones, 

Operations Supervisor, Federal Energy 

Management Program. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03103 Filed 2–12–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Request for Information: Accounting 

Conventions for Non-Combustible 

Renewable Energy Use 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Request for 

Information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) gives notice of a Request for 

Information: ‘‘Accounting Conventions 

for Non-Combustible Renewable Energy 

Use’’ regarding using an alternative 

methodology for calculating source 

energy from non-combustible renewable 

resources in analysis that informs DOE, 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy (EERE) products, 

reports, and standards—such as the 

Home Energy Score. The current 

approach uses the equivalent average 

heat rate of fossil fuels to convert 

renewable electricity to source energy 

(approximately 9,500 BTU/kWh), while 

the proposed approach would use the 

heat content of electricity (3,412 BTU/ 

kWh). This proposed change would 

better represent the lack of fuels used in 

generating renewable electricity, and 

would result in a slightly lower site-tosource ratio than the current approach. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

March 14, 2016, no later than 5:00 p.m. 

(ET). 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

encouraged to submit comments, which 

must be submitted electronically to 

EERE.Analysis@ee.doe.gov. Please visit 

https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/ for 

the full RFI and to ask and view 

responses to questions regarding this 

RFI. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information may 

be sent to Steve Capanna, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: 202–586–7367. Email: 

Steve.Capanna@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

EERE publishes reports, tools, and 

standards that include analyses that 

examine the impact of energy efficiency 

measures on total energy savings, and 

that compare energy savings between 

different types of technologies. A 

commonly used methodology for this is 

to convert the ‘‘site energy’’ into source 

energy (or ‘‘primary energy’’) using a 

site-to-source ratio. For electricity, this 

essentially converts the energy used in 

a building (in kilowatt-hours, kWh) into 

the equivalent amount of fuel required 

to generate that electricity (typically in 

British Thermal Units, BTU). 

The site-to-source ratio accounts for 

the useful energy lost in converting, 

transmitting, and distributing energy 

carriers. As a result, the source energy 

can be three times the size of the 

equivalent site energy, depending on 

location and electricity generation 

technology used. The benefit of using 

source energy as a metric for 

determining the impact of energy 

efficiency measures and technologies is 

that it is a more equitable ‘‘apples-toapples’’ comparison of energy use than 

looking at site energy alone. 

Typically, analyses use electricity 

energy data provided by the Energy 

Information Administration (EIA) in 

their Monthly Energy Review to 

calculate a site-to-source ratio. Using 

this EIA document, the total energy 

content of fuels used to generate 

electricity is divided by the total 

amount of electricity consumed by end 

users to calculate the site-to-source 

ratio. 

Accounting for the total source energy 

of electricity produced from 

combustible fuels (e.g., coal, natural gas, 

oil) is relatively straightforward as the 

energy content of these fuels is known. 

However, for non-combustible 

renewable resources (i.e., wind, solar, 

hydro, and geothermal) because there is 

no ‘‘fuel’’ used, a choice must be made 

to determine how to account for the 

primary energy of electricity generated 

from these sources. 

The current ‘‘fossil fuel equivalency’’ 

accounting convention used by the EIA 

to calculate the reported source energy 

number, assumes that non-combustible 

renewable electricity (RE) generation 

has the same source energy per kWh as 

the average of fossil fuel electricity. This 

factor, equivalent to a heat rate, 

represents the average amount of fossil 

fuel energy required to produce a kWh 

of electricity. Alternatively, the factor 

can be thought of as the amount of fossil 

energy displaced by a kWh of RE. The 

most recent value reported by EIA in 

Table A6 of the Monthly Energy Review 

is 9,541 BTU/kWh, which is equivalent 

to a generation efficiency of roughly 

36%. 

The ‘‘captured energy’’ alternative 

convention accounts only for the energy 

output from a non-combustible 

generator. This assumes that the 

conversion from energy resource (e.g. 

sunlight, wind, water, etc.) into 

electricity is 100% efficient. The energy 

content of electricity generated from a 

non-combustible source using this 

accounting convention is 3,412 BTU/

kWh, which is a unit conversion. 

An example comparison of the two 

methods of calculating source energy 

and site-to-source ratios using 2014 data 

is presented in the table below. Using 

the captured energy approach decreases 

the site-to-source ratio from 2.98 to 2.77 

as compared to the fossil fuel 

equivalency approach. 

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES OF NON-COMBUSTIBLE RENEWABLE ENERGY ACCOUNTING ON SITE-TOSOURCE RATIOS, USING 2014 DATA a

Method RE gen. 

(TWh) b

Conversion 

factor 

(BTU/kWh) 

RE source 

energy 

(quad) 

Non-RE 

source 

energy 

(quad) c

Total source 

energy 

(quad) 

End use 

(quad) d

Site-to-source 

ratio e

Fossil Fuel Equivalency 475 f 9,541 4.53 35.21 39.74 13.32 2.98 

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