[Federal Register: October 5, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 193)]
[Notices]
[Page 57028-57029]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence Pre-
Solicitation Meeting
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice of pre-solicitation meeting on October 15, 2007 in San
Antonio, Texas.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and
Infrastructure Technologies Program is holding a pre-solicitation
meeting on a planned Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence
on October 15, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas at the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center at 3:30 p.m. CDT. A Web cast will also be available
for anyone unable to attend the meeting in person. Detailed information
regarding the meeting location, Web cast, and the solicitation
materials for comment will be updated on the DOE Web site, http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/news_storage_center.html
.
At the meeting, DOE seeks questions and comments from the public on
the draft solicitation materials that will be posted on this Web site.
This information will be used in determining the scope of work of this
new center of excellence and the associated solicitation, otherwise
known as a
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). Questions and comments will
also be accepted via e-mail. All of the questions received (from the
meeting and via e-mail) and the associated answers provided at the
meeting will be posted on this Web site after the meeting.
DATES: Written questions and comments are welcome. These may be
submitted via e-mail and must be received by 5 p.m. CDT on October 11,
2007. Questions will also be taken during the actual meeting on October
15, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Please submit all questions and comments to
engineeringCoE@go.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carole Read, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Mail Station
EE-2H, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, Phone:
(202) 586-3152, e-mail: carole.read@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the DOE's Hydrogen Program is
to research, develop and validate fuel cell and hydrogen production,
delivery, and storage technologies so that hydrogen from diverse
domestic resources can be used in a clean, safe, reliable and
affordable manner in fuel cell vehicles, electric power generation and
combined heat and power applications. A critical requirement for
enabling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to achieve mass market penetration
is the development of on-board hydrogen storage systems with enough
capacity to meet driving range expectations (more than 300 miles in the
United States), while meeting a number of requirements such as weight,
volume and cost. Detailed technical targets developed by DOE, with
input through the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, are available at:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/mypp/pdfs/storage.pdf.
For more information about the DOE Hydrogen Program and related on-
board hydrogen storage activities visit the Program's Web site at
http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov and http://www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells
.
Issued in Golden, CO on October 1, 2007.
Mary Foreman,
Procurement Director, DOE Golden Field Office.
[FR Doc. E7-19689 Filed 10-4-07; 8:45 am]
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