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Docket No. EO-05-01. Order No. 202-07-02: As you are aware, Mirant Potomac River, L.L.C, (Mirant) is operating per the terms and conditions of the Administrative Compliance Order (ACO) dated June 1, 2006. Under the terms of ACO, Mirant is to deliver a monthly report to include: (1) the modeled input files and results of the daily Predictive Modeling for the preceding month, including the hourly average heat input in the MMBtu for each unit and the exit velocity (or exhaust volume) for each unit; (2) verification that the planned Operating Parameters utilized for Predictive Modeling in the preceding month were not exceeded, or if exceeded, documentation describing that exceedance: (3) the inputs and results of the "follow-up" modeling for the preceding month (or portion thereof during which all Monitors were not in place), including the hourly average heat input in MMBtu for each unit and the exit velocity (or exhaust volume) for each unit; and (4) after installation of the Monitors, the data generated by the Monitors. As a result, please see the attached submission, "Mirant Potomac River, LLC Monthly Model Evaluation Study Report" for the month of December 2006.

Docket No. EO-05-01. Order No. 202-07-02: As you are aware, Mirant Potomac River, L.L.C, (Mirant) is operating per the terms and conditions of the Administrative Compliance Order (ACO) dated June 1, 2006. Under the terms of ACO, Mirant is to deliver a...

The Department of Energy, through its Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, funds Superconductivity Partnerships. Each Superconductivity Partnership (Partnership) receives financial assistance primarily through a cooperative agreement with industry to research and develop high-temperature superconducting electric power cquipmcnt technologies. These technology projects offer the potential to drastically increase electricity transnlission capacity but represent a challenging objective since it is difficult to estimate the probability of success for such projects. Examples of these technologies include generators, transformers, magnetic energy storage systems, superconducting wire, and prototypes that have application in both the commercial and defensc sectors. The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability develops the mission and objcctives for Partnership projects; formulates and justifies the budget; and, provides overall guidance and direction. The Golden Field Office located in Golden, Colorado, is responsible for administering the Partnership cooperative agreements.

Management Controls over the Department of Energy's Superconductivity Partnerships

A new study released on Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) found there is enough electric capacity to power plug-in vehicles across much of the nation. The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability supported researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to develop this study that found "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the 198 million cars, pickup trucks, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in the nation if they were plug-in hybrid electrics. This is the first review of what the impacts would be of very high market penetrations of PHEVs.

The mission of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Sandia AND OBJECTIVE National Laboratory-California (Sandia-CA) includes applying advanced science and engineering to support the United States’ deterrence policy by ensuring the nuclear weapons stockpile is safe, reducing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and enhancing the surety of energy. Sandia-CA is managed by Lockheed Martin Corporation for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Sandia-CA employs about 900 people. In support of its mission, Sandia-CA procures more than $40 million in goods and services annually. Employees at Sandia-CA have several procurement methods available to them, to include the Procurement Card Program. This Program was established to simplify the procurement of low value, commercially available goods and services without going through a more protracted and costly competitive procurement process. Sandia-CA’s procurement card activities are administered by the Sandia National Laboratory-New Mexico (Sandia-NM) corporate organization. There are about 400 procurement card holders at Sandia-CA, with most limited to a spending authority of no more than $5,000 per transaction and $25,000 per month. However, some employees in the Sandia-CA Procurement Department have been authorized by Sandia management to spend as much as $250,000 to $1 million per monthly billing cycle. Given the wide-spread use of procurement cards throughout the Department and the potential for abuse, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has established a proactive initiative to review procurement card programs at Department facilities. Appendix C contains a partial listing of prior OIG reports related to procurement card reviews. As part of the OIG initiative, we reviewed the Procurement Card Program at Sandia-CA. The objective of this inspection was to determine whether Sandia-CA’s internal controls ensured that purchases made using procurement cards were in accordance with applicable policies and procedures. Our inspection methodology included reviewing all of Sandia-CA’s procurement card transactions for January through November 2005. There were 21,568 transactions valued at $12.7 million.

Sandia National Laboratory-California Procurement Card Program

Order authorizing BP Energy Company to export electric energy to Canada

Order authorizing BP Energy Company to export electric energy to Canada

The NIAC convened the Physical/Cyber Convergence Working Group (CWG), in October 2005, to investigate the ongoing convergence of physical and cyber technologies for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and process control systems and their consolidated network management. The Working Group convened a Study Group of subject matter experts to inform its work. The Working Group report informed the NIAC’s deliberations.