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California-City-HaywardCX(s) Applied: A1, A9, A11, B1.32, B2.5, B5.1Date: 10/05/2010Location(s): Hayward, CaliforniaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Arizona Balance of State- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant WickenburgCX(s) Applied: B5.1Date: 10/05/2010Location(s): Wickenburg, ArizonaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

Letter from DOE to EPA headquarters, Re: referral of matter concerning Elextrolux air conditioner non-compliance with ENERGY STAR energy-efficiency requirements by 6.1 percent. Electrolux has not chosen to request additional testing on its non-compliannt air condiner model. On Oct. 1, 2010, Electrolux sent an email notifying DOE that the model is no longer in production and can be removed the ENERGY STAR list.

DOE referred the matter of Electrolux room air conditioner model GAH105Q2T1 to the EPA for appropriate action after DOE testing showed that the model does not meet the ENERGY STAR specification.

This report by the Department of Energy (DOE) complements DOE‘s companion report, Informing Federal Smart Grid Policy: The Communications Requirements of Electric Utilities. Both reports are also components of the federal government‘s much broader efforts to facilitate the adoption and deployment of various Smart Grid technologies. These ongoing broader efforts have encompassed many agencies including many operational units within DOE, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology‘s Subcommittee on Smart Grid. This report and its companion report also respond to recommendations directed toward DOE in the National Broadband Plan (the NBP), authored by the FCC at the direction of Congress. The NBP seeks to ensure that every American has access to broadband capability. The NBP also includes a detailed strategy for achieving affordability and maximizing use of broadband to advance consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, entrepreneurial activity, job creation and economic growth, and other national purposes. As part of this strategy, the NBP made recommendations to various Federal agencies, including DOE. In particular, the NBP recommended that DOE evaluate the overall communications needs of the Smart Grid, consider consumer-data-accessibility policies when evaluating Smart Grid grant applications, and report on the states‘ progress toward enacting consumer data accessibility and develop best practices guidance for states. This report implements the latter two recommendations, while the companion report implements the first recommendation.

This report sets forth the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the communications requirements of electric utilities and proposes specific recommendations for next steps to support these requirements. In order to analyze these requirements properly, this report will review the projected requirements of various components of the Smart Grid. The template used in this report is built upon work by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), augmented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which identified six key priority functionalities of the Smart Grid: (1) advanced metering infrastructure; (2) demand response; (3) electric vehicles; (4) wide-area situational awareness; (5) distributed energy resources and storage; and, (6) distribution grid management.3 Recognizing the need for quantifying communications requirements in order to assess the performance of various communications technologies, NIST and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) initiated an effort in the context of the Priority Action Plan on Wireless Communications4 to collect communications requirements for various Smart Grid applications. This effort has been undertaken by the OpenSG SG Communications Task Group and to date has compiled over 1400 functional and volumetric requirements for 18 different use cases.5 In addition, SGIP also established other Priority Action Plans and Working Groups to address networking, data modeling, and security issues. Because of the dynamic and continually evolving nature of Smart Grid applications and technologies, our review represents a snapshot of where the technologies and requirements stand today, informed by the responses to the DOE RFI.

DOE ordered American Valve, Inc. to pay a $5,000 civil penalty after finding American Valve had failed to certify that certain showerhead models comply with the applicable water conservation standards.

Replace Spacer Dampers Along the Slatt-John Day Number 1 500-Kilovolt Transmission LineCX(s) Applied: B1.3Date: 10/04/2010Location(s): Sherman County, OregonOffice(s): Bonneville Power Administration