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Controlled Environment Agriculture and Energy ProjectCX(s) Applied: B3.6, B5.1Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): New YorkOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant State of Kansas DE-EE0000727 Cloud County Ground Source Heat Pump Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Renewable Energy SubgrantCX(s) Applied: A9, B5.1Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): Cloud County, Kansa...

Center for Nanoscale EnergyCX(s) Applied: B3.6Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): North DakotaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

Richland Community College Bioenergy ProgramCX(s) Applied: A9Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): IllinoisOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

A World-Class University-Industry Consortium for Wind Energy Research, Education, and Workforce DevelopmentCX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B3.6, B5.1Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): IllinoisOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

Hydrogen Technology Electric Vehicle Charging StationCX(s) Applied: B5.1Date: 07/26/2010Location(s): Boca Raton, FloridaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office

Comments regarding U.S. Department of Energy Proposed Agency Information Collection Request. Federal funding under the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) and Smart Grid Demonstration Grant (SGDG) programs.

Comments regarding U.S. Department of Energy Proposed Agency Information Collection Request. Federal funding under the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) and Smart Grid Demonstration Grant (SGDG) programs.

Smart grid provides consumers with unprecedented access and control of their electricity usage, and it provides utilities with the ability to manage the electric grid with significantly greater efficiency. As the end-users, TIA believes consumers will ultimately determine how successful the smart grid can become. For utility-driven smart grid solutions, utilities can only do as much as voter-accountable regulators will allow. The success of consumer-driven smart grid solutions will rest entirely on consumer value and adoption. While consumer preferences for both the manner and the amount of interaction with the grid will vary significantly by individual, the secure provision of energy consumption and pricing data to customers, utilities, and third parties will be critical to the development of the smart grid. Consumer access to data will act as an important catalyst for accelerating smart grid deployment and is critical in enabling the creation of a consumer market for smart grid devices and solutions on the consumer’s side of the meter. Third party service providers will provide additional competition and innovation in providing home energy management services for consumers. The privacy of consumer data and clear policies regarding how and with whom the data may be shared will be essential to consumer adoption moving forward.

On May 11, 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a Request for Information seeking comments from interested parties to assist DOE in understanding current and potential practices and policies for States and other entities to empower consumers (and perhaps others) through access to detailed energy information in electronic form--including real-time information from smart meters, historical consumption data, and pricing and billing information. DOE held a public meeting as part of this request for information on June 29, 2010. Partially, in response to that Notice, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed the attached resolution last week at its Summer Meetings in Sacramento, California. The resolution, among other things, encourages completion of a study on information handling practices and specifies, because of the State’s expertise and proximity to retail electric customers, that any federal “ . . . action should respect and incorporate State rules and ongoing State authority to protect ratepayers’ privacy and ability to control access to their energy usage information.”