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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 226 / Monday, November 29, 2021 / Notices
Topic Area 5: Electric Grid Transformers and HVDC

Area 6: Hydropower and Pumped Storage Technology
1. What are the current and future supply chain vulnerabilities given the anticipated growth in demand for electric grid technologies to support decarbonization, particularly large power transformers LPT and highvoltage, direct current technology HVDC? Of the vulnerabilities, which are the most crucial for the U.S. to address and focus on and why?
2. Where in the supply chain does it make sense for the U.S to focus and prioritize its efforts both in the shortterm and the long-term, and why?
Where in the supply chain do you see opportunities for the U.S to build domestic capabilities of LPT and HVDC
manufacturing? What areas of the supply chain should the U.S. not prioritize for attraction or expansion of domestic manufacturing capabilities, and why? For areas in the supply chain where U.S. opportunities to build domestic manufacturing capabilities are limited, which foreign countries or regions should the U.S. government prioritize for engagement to strengthen/
build reliable partnerships, and what actions should the government take to help ensure resilience in these areas of the supply chain?
3. What challenges limit the U.S.s ability to realize these opportunities to build domestic LPT and HVDC
manufacturing? What conditions are needed to help incentivize companies involved in the LPT and HVDC supply chains to build and expand domestic manufacturing capabilities?
4. How can government help the private sector and communities involved in energy storage manufacturing build and expand domestic manufacturing capabilities?
What investment and policy actions are needed to support domestic manufacturing of LPT and HVDC?
5. What specific skills are needed for the workforce to support the LPT and HVDC manufacturing supply chain? Of those skills, which ones are lacking in current education/training programs?
What resources including time and structures would be needed to train the LPT and HVDC workforce? What worker groups, secondary education facilities, and other stakeholders could be valuable partners in these training activities? What new education programs should be included developed? to prepare the workforce?
6. What other input should the federal government be aware of to support a resilient supply chain of this technology?

Hydropower refers to hydropower and pumped storage hydropower.
1. What are the current and future supply chain vulnerabilities given the anticipated growth in demand for hydropower technology to support decarbonization? Of these vulnerabilities, which are the most crucial for the U.S. to address and focus on and why?
2. Are there any hydropower generation plant components that are critical to operations and depend on extended supply chains e.g., long time needed to procure a replacement for the component? Do any of the critical-tooperation components with extended supply chains have a high risk of failure or the potential to negatively impact entire plant operations? Which components are harder to procure domestically meaning domestically manufactured and typically need to be imported?
3. Do you have concerns about extinct supply chains where components need to be produced on an ad hoc basis from bespoke component developers? Are there components that have a long lead time because they have to be fabricated? Are components e.g., programmable logic controllers PLCs being replaced before the end of their useful life because of supply chain risks e.g., manufacturers no longer supporting certain legacy equipment, not producing replacement parts for it anymore?
4. For components that are not unique to hydropower plants e.g., batteries, transformers, have there been shortages or difficulties for hydropower plants to secure the components due to competition from other uses within the electric generation sector e.g., wind and solar generation, batteries for grid storage?
5. Where in the supply chain does it make sense for the U.S to focus and prioritize its efforts both in the shortterm and long-term, and why? Where in the supply chain do you see opportunities for the U.S. to build the domestic supply chain of hydropower technology component manufacturing?
What areas of the supply chain should the U.S. not prioritize for attraction or expansion of domestic manufacturing capabilities, and why? For areas in the supply chain where U.S. opportunities to build domestic manufacturing capabilities are limited, which foreign countries or regions should the U.S.
government prioritize for engagement to strengthen/build reliable partnerships, and what actions should the
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government take to help ensure resilience in these areas of the supply chain?
6. What challenges limit the U.S.s ability to realize these opportunities for domestic hydropower technology component manufacturing in the U.S.?
What conditions are needed to help incentivize companies involved in the hydropower technology components manufacturing to build and expand operations in the U.S.?
7. How can government help the private sector and communities involved in hydropower components manufacturing onshore and scale up hydropower components manufacturing in the U.S.? What investment and policy actions are needed to support domestic manufacturing of hydropower technology component manufacturing?
8. What specific skills are needed for the workforce to support the hydropower technology manufacturing supply chain? Of those skills, which ones are lacking in current education/
training programs? What resources including time and structures would be needed to train the hydropower workforce? What worker groups, secondary education facilities, and other stakeholders could be valuable partners in these training activities? What new education programs should be included developed? to prepare the workforce?
9. How are hydropower plant components disposed of at the end of their operational life? Are there practices already in place or being considered to contribute to a circular economy 1 approach involving recycling? What barriers are associated with recycling and reuse of hydropower components? How can the federal government most effectively support increasing circularity collection, reuse or processing, and recycling of hydropower components?
10. What other input should the federal government be aware of to support a resilient supply chain of this technology?
Area 7: Nuclear Energy Technology 1. What are the current and future supply chain vulnerabilities as we continue operation of existing commercial nuclear reactors and accelerate the deployment of new reactor technologies? Of these vulnerabilities, which are the most 1 Circular economyis an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. Circular economy aims to reduce waste of resources by maximizing use, recovery, reuse, and recycling of products. https reports.weforum.org/
toward-the-circular-economy-accelerating-thescale-up-across-global-supply-chains/from-linearto-circular-accelerating-a-proven-concept/.

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