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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 226 / Monday, November 29, 2021 / Notices
storage hydropower PSH; nuclear energy; fuel cells and electrolyzers;
semiconductors; neodymium magnets;
platinum group metals and other catalysts; and carbon capture materials.
Crosscutting topics include cybersecurity and digital components, and commercialization and competitiveness. DOE has additional ongoing supply chain analysis on other technologies and topics as well. For this effort, DOE is reviewing the full supply chainfrom raw materials, processed materials, subcomponents, final products, to end-of-life material recovery and recyclingfor each technology. DOE is taking an in-depth assessment in each of the selected technologies, including:
Mapping the supply chains;
Identifying existing and future threats, risks, and vulnerabilities;
Identifying major barriers, including financial and commercial, scientific, technical, regulatory and market;
Identifying conditions needed to help incentivize energy sector companies and communities to both transfer energy manufacturing back to and scale up supply chains in the United States.
Identifying areas where collaboration between the government and private sector, as well as between government entities federal, state, local, and Tribal, is necessary to expand the energy industrial base, what private sector leadership might look like in this area, and where or how government can help; and Identifying specific actions to address threats, risks, and vulnerabilities and help build resilient supply chains.
This RFI seeks input from all stakeholders involved directly and indirectly in the supply chains of energy and energy efficiency technologies including but not limited to U.S.
industry, researchers, academia, local governments, labor organizations, and civil society. This stakeholder input will inform the Departments efforts to build an energy sector industrial base that is diverse, resilient, and competitive while meeting economic, national security, and climate objectives.
This RFI seeks responses on the energy sector industrial base and individual technologies as well as crosscutting topics. Specifically, DOE is interested in gathering information relevant to the following topic areas:
1. Crosscutting topics relating to the energy sector industrial base 2. Solar PV Technology 3. Wind Energy Technology
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4. Energy Storage Technology 5. Electric GridTransformers and HVDC
6. Hydropower and Pumped Storage Technology 7. Nuclear Energy Technology 8. Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers 9. Semiconductors 10. Neodymium Magnets 11. Platinum Group Metals and other materials used as Catalysts 12. Carbon Capture, Storage, and Transportation Materials 13. Cybersecurity and Digital Components 14. Commercialization and Competitiveness Questions for Input This RFI is an initial step in improving DOE understanding of interests, concerns, challenges, and policy needs of the private sector and communities at large, with respect to manufacturing supply chains of the evolving energy sector industrial base.
This RFI is a general solicitation for public input, which sets forth topics for discussion and comment. Specific questions to which responses are requested for each focus area are listed below. Respondents may provide input regarding any or all the topic areas and may address any or all the questions.
Area 1: Crosscutting Topics Relating to the Energy Sector Industrial Base The concept of the energy sector industrial base as a defined group of critical industry partners does not currently exist in the same way that it does for the Defense Industrial Base.
The one-year reports responding to Executive Order 14017 present an opportunity to define the energy sector industrial base.
This section targets crosscutting/
technology neutral input; for technology specific comments, please respond in the respective technology in Area 2 to Area 13.
1. How would you define the energy sector industrial base? For the purposes of informing comprehensive supply chain policiesincluding promoting supply chain resiliencewhat entities are included or not included in the energy sector industrial base?
2. For adoption of clean energy technologies in the United States, what are the crosscutting vulnerabilities and gaps in the supply chain and manufacturing capabilities given the likely ramp-up in demand for these technologies?
3. What are opportunities to expand domestic energy-related manufacturing in the United States? What conditions will lead manufacturers to reshore or
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expand domestic clean energy manufacturing?
4. How can the government partner with the private sector and communities to build domestic energy manufacturing capabilities? What investments and other policy mechanisms are needed to enable these partnerships?
5. How can policies and programs that support domestic energy manufacturing also support workforce opportunities and the creation of competitive, longterm manufacturing careers, especially for communities impacted by energy transition?
Area 2: Solar PV Technology 1. What are the current and future supply chain gaps and vulnerabilities as we scale up the adoption and use of solar PV technologies? Of these gaps and vulnerabilities, which are the most crucial for the U.S. to address and focus on and why?
2. Where in the solar PV supply chain does it make sense for the U.S. to focus and prioritize its efforts both in the short-term and the long-term, and why?
Where in the supply chain do you see opportunities for the U.S. to build durable domestic capabilities of solar PV manufacturing? 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 opportunities to build domestic solar PV manufacturing? What conditions are needed to help incentivize companies involved in the solar PV supply chains to build and expand domestic manufacturing capabilities?
4. How can government federal, state, local, and Tribal help the private sector and communities involved in solar PV
manufacturing build and expand domestic solar PV manufacturing in the U.S.? What investment and policy actions are needed to support domestic manufacturing of solar PV?
5. What specific skills are needed for the workforce to support the solar PV
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 solar PV workforce? What worker groups, secondary education facilities, and other stakeholders could be valuable partners in these training
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