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authorization with a 5-year term. 

Synergy does not own or control any 

electric generation, transmission, or 

distribution assets, nor does it have a 

franchised service area. The electric 

energy which Synergy proposes to 

export to Canada would be surplus 

energy purchased from electric utilities, 

Federal power marketing agencies, and 

other entities within the United States. 

Synergy requests that consideration of 

the application be expedited so that it 

may participate in the Alberta market 

that has recently experienced some 

supply uncertainty and price volatility. 

Specifically, Synergy requests that DOE 

rule on its application prior to March 1, 

2008. 

Synergy will arrange for the delivery 

of exports to Canada over the 

international transmission facilities 

owned by Basin Electric Power 

Cooperative, Bonneville Power 

Administration, Eastern Maine Electric 

Cooperative, International Transmission 

Co., Joint Owners of the Highgate 

Project, Long Sault, Inc., Maine Electric 

Power Company, Maine Public Service 

Company, Minnesota Power, Inc., 

Minnkota Power Cooperative, Inc., New 

York Power Authority, Niagara Mohawk 

Power Corp., Northern States Power 

Company, Vermont Electric Power 

Company, and Vermont Electric 

Transmission Co. 

The construction, operation, 

maintenance, and connection of each of 

the international transmission facilities 

to be utilized by Synergy has previously 

been authorized by a Presidential permit 

issued pursuant to Executive Order 

10485, as amended. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to become a party to these 

proceedings or to be heard by filing 

comments or protests to this application 

should file a petition to intervene, 

comment, or protest at the address 

provided above in accordance with 

§§ 385.211 or 385.214 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 

385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of each 

petition and protest should be filed with 

DOE on or before the date listed above. 

DOE has granted Synergy’s request for 

expedited treatment of its application 

and shortened the public comment 

period to 15 days. 

Comments on the Synergy application 

to export electric energy to Canada 

should be clearly marked with Docket 

No. EA–337. Additional copies are to be 

filed directly with Randall Dost, Sean 

Pinnell, Synergy Power Marketing, Inc., 

Ste 800, 2303 4th Street, Calgary, 

Alberta T2S 2S7 and Linda Williams, 

518 Carolina Drive, Toccoa, GA 30577. 

A final decision will be made on this 

application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, and a determination is 

made by DOE that the proposed action 

will not adversely impact on the 

reliability of the U.S. electric power 

supply system. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/permitting/

electricity_imports_exports.htm, or by emailing Odessa Hopkins at 

Odessa.hopkins@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 29, 

2008. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. E8–1916 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Notice of Opportunity for Technical 

Assistance (NOTA)—DE–PS36–

08GO98011, Solar America Initiative 

(SAI) Market Transformation: Solar 

America Showcases, FY 2008 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) is accepting requests for 

Technical Assistance for large-scale, 

high-visibility solar installation projects 

that have the ability to impact the 

market for solar technologies through 

large project size, use of a novel solar 

technology, and/or use of a novel 

application for a solar technology. In 

addition, it is desired that the project be 

replicable or have replicable 

components. It is not expected that all 

projects will meet all of these 

parameters, but projects would ideally 

reflect some or most of these qualities. 

Large-scale installations may include 

photovoltaic, concentrating solar power, 

solar water heating, and solar space 

heating applications. Technical 

assistance will not be provided for 

research, product development, or early 

stage testing and evaluation of any 

technology or product. Solar America 

Showcases focus on providing support 

to projects in which a commerciallyready technology is to be installed in a 

large-scale application with full 

financial project commitment already in 

place. 

Any legal entity, to include private 

sector for-profit and non-profit 

organizations, State and local 

governments, and trade and other 

associations may request DOE Technical 

Assistance under this Notice, so long as 

the installation proposed by the 

organization, and for which the 

Technical Assistance will be provided, 

is located in the United States. Federal 

agencies are not permitted to request 

Technical Assistance under this Notice. 

Federally Funded Research and 

Development Center (FFRDC) 

Contractors may not submit a request for 

Technical Assistance, may not 

participate as a team partner with any 

entity requesting Technical Assistance, 

and may not assist any entity with their 

submission of a request for Technical 

Assistance under this Notice. Nonprofit 

organizations described in section 

501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code 

of 1986 that engaged in lobbying 

activities after December 31, 1995 are 

not permitted to submit a request for 

Technical Assistance under this Notice. 

Technical Assistance described under 

this Notice will be provided via a 

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) 

between DOE, the organization selected 

to receive the Technical Assistance, and 

the Technical Assistance Team Leader 

responsible for providing the Technical 

Assistance. A MOA is a collaborative 

agreement between the Federal 

Government and other parties to work 

together on a mutually beneficial 

activity. The MOA will detail the scope 

of the Technical Assistance activities, 

the forms of collaboration, the 

responsibilities of the partners to the 

Agreement, and the treatment of any 

potential intellectual property. Federal 

funding will not be provided to a 

partner under a MOA. 

DATES: Requests for Technical 

Assistance must be submitted via the 

DOE Industry Interactive Procurement 

System (IIPS) Web site at 

http://e-center.doe.gov/ by 03/12/2008 

and 06/12/2008. 

ADDRESSES: Note that this posting in the 

Federal Register is not the full 

announcement. Interested parties must 

download and follow the instructions in 

the full announcement which is 

available on the DOE Industry 

Interactive Procurement System (IIPS) 

website. To locate the full 

Announcement, go to 

http://e-center.doe.gov/, click on 

‘‘Browse Opportunities’’, scroll down to 

view DOE Financial Assistance 

Opportunities (Viewing ‘‘Opportunities 

by Contracting Activity’’ is 

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recommended.) Click on the ‘‘Browse 

Financial Asst.’’ button. Click on the 

folder (or blue arrow depending on your 

server) next to the ‘‘Golden Field 

Office’’. Locate and click on 

Announcement No. DE–PS36–

08GO98011, Solar America Initiative 

(SAI) Market Transformation: Solar 

America Showcases, FY2008. 

IMPORTANT: Scroll to the bottom of 

the page, where you will find the ‘‘Full 

Announcement & Other Files.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the content of the 

full announcement must be submitted 

through the ‘‘Submit Question’’ feature 

in the DOE Industry Interactive 

Procurement System (IIPS) at 

http://e-center.doe.gov. Locate the full 

announcement (as identified under 

‘‘Addresses’’) and then click on the 

‘‘Submit Question’’ button. Enter 

required information. You will receive 

an electronic notification that your 

question has been answered. DOE will 

try to respond to a question within 3 

business days, unless a similar question 

and answer have already been posted on 

the website. All questions must be 

submitted no later than one week prior 

to the closing date. Please contact the 

IIPS Help Desk at 1–800–683–0751 

(select Option 1) or at 

helpdesk@pr.doe.gov for questions 

regarding the operation of IIPS. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To 

provide more guidance as to the types 

of installations DOE is looking to 

support, additional information is 

provided below on the parameters for 

(and examples of) projects for which 

DOE anticipates receiving requests for 

Technical Assistance under this Notice. 

Regarding the scale of the project, 

DOE is looking for projects with total 

capacity in excess of 100 kW. Projects 

may include multiple sites, and do not 

have to be co-located. In addition to the 

initial installation, the kW total may 

also include planned follow-on 

activities (direct replication efforts). 

Examples include installations in 

residential subdivisions, shopping 

centers, office buildings or parks, big 

box retail locations, factories, and utility 

solar production. 

Regarding the visibility of the project, 

DOE anticipates projects that are 

centrally located in towns, are sited near 

highly trafficked vehicle or pedestrian 

areas, house hundreds of residents or 

workers, are a part of an area frequented 

by tourists, are part of a popular public 

destination (e.g. shopping centers, 

courthouses, etc.) or have some other 

high visibility component. The project 

would also have an outreach component 

that provides information about the 

installation. 

Regarding the novel solar technology, 

DOE proposes to support projects that 

introduce new solar technologies that 

hold the promise of reducing initial 

costs, simplifying installation, and 

boosting consumer confidence, but 

which have little testing to date that 

demonstrates such improvements. 

Examples include new cell or module 

technology, new materials, or 

innovative installation and mounting 

techniques. By offering Technical 

Assistance, DOE envisions helping these 

new solar technologies develop a 

performance record in the marketplace, 

identify technical problems early in 

mass product releases, and devise 

solutions and alternatives that move 

specific solar technologies to costcompetitiveness by 2015. 

Regarding the novel solar application, 

DOE expects to support projects that 

utilize solar technology in new ways. 

One example would be to include new 

methods of building integration beyond 

traditional roof-mounted modules. DOE 

also supports innovative designs and 

methods that open up previously 

untapped markets or end uses to solar 

technology adoption. Acceptable Solar 

Applications could also include those 

that are currently in use in other 

geographic areas, but not in the vicinity 

(State, region) of the proposed site. 

Regarding replicability, DOE expects 

to support projects that can either be 

replicated by the entity requesting the 

Technical Assistance or by others. The 

entire project should be replicable, or 

have replicable components, unless 

installations are of an extremely large 

size that justifies DOE support without 

replicability. Replication of projects is a 

critical component to advance solar 

commercialization. 

To improve the overall impact of the 

project, teaming by the entities 

requesting the Technical Assistance 

under this Notice with other relevant 

stakeholders is encouraged. DOE also 

encourages incorporating energy 

efficiency measures with solar 

technologies in all building/facility 

applications as part of the projects 

supported by this Technical Assistance. 

Technical assistance will not be 

provided for research, product 

development, or early stage testing and 

evaluation of any technology or product. 

DOE will provide tailored hands-on 

Technical Assistance to the selected 

organization(s) through the use of 

specifically assembled Technical 

Assistance Teams. Members of these 

Teams will be subject matter and 

technical experts in areas such as, 

architecture, finance, planning, project 

management, etc. Significant 

participants of these Teams will be the 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory 

(NREL), Sandia National Laboratories 

(SNL), and the Southwest and Southeast 

Regional Experiment Stations (RESs), 

which are housed at New Mexico State 

University and Florida Solar Energy 

Center respectively. Other entities may 

be added to the teams as necessary. DOE 

may choose to contract for non-lab 

Technical Assistance Team members, 

mainly to provide the non-solar-specific 

Technical Assistance, through a 

separate procurement instrument. 

Technical Assistance provided under 

this Notice is designed to help entities 

make informed decisions. Technical 

Assistance Teams will provide 

information and options to enable 

policy, planning, and purchasing 

decisions. DOE and the Technical 

Assistance Teams will not direct 

behavior or decisions, or require entities 

to take any particular course of action. 

The role of DOE stops short of the actual 

decision-making. 

To learn more about the Solar 

America Initiative (SAI): http:// 

www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/solar_

america/index.html. 

Issued in Golden, CO on January 15, 2008. 

Mary Foreman, 

Procurement Director, Golden Field Office. 

[FR Doc. E8–1919 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

January 25, 2008. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following exempt 

wholesale generator filings: 

Docket Numbers: EG08–25–000. 

Applicants: Buffalo Gap Wind Farm 3, 

LLC. 

Description: Notice of SelfCertification as an Exempt Wholesale 

Generator of Buffalo Gap Wind Farm 3, 

LLC. 

Filed Date: 12/20/2007. 

Accession Number: 20071220–5003. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, February 1, 2008. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER02–2458–011. 

Applicants: Wolverine Power Supply 

Cooperative, Inc.,Midwest Independent 

Transmission System. 

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