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Federal Energy Management Program

The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) helps federal agencies manage their building and fleet energy use by providing training, tools, technical assistance, and funding.

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Program Management Plan EnCore ® Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) Program

This Program Management Plan (PMP) is developed to support Westinghouse’s vision of developing and commercializing the Accident Tolerant Fuel. The near term goal of this Program is to deliver 2 fuel assemblies that consists of LTRs for Exelon Byron Unit 2 in spring of 2019. The longer term goal of this program is deployment of LTAs in 2022 of a mixture of coated zirconium cladding and SiC cladding with ADOPT and U3Si2 fuels. This is a high complexity program and is one of the largest research and development programs in Westinghouse and as such, the project scope is expected to change continuously. Integrated change control will be invoked as necessary. The Program consists of multiple funding streams (internal through Westinghouse innovation funding), external (through the DOE). The DOE funding consists of two phases: 1. Phase 2 – funded by DOE award number DE-NE0008222. 2. Phase 2B – funded by DOE – Westinghouse proposal reference # LTR-AMER-MKG-18-826, Rev. 1, August 23, 2018 (10/18 to 2/21), Award No. DE-NE0008824. 3. Cost share contributions from Westinghouse and program partners.

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Federal Energy Management Program

Fact sheet describes the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and includes information about its mission and stakeholders, five main focus areas, and resources it offers for federal agencies.

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Renewing Our National Parks: A Partnership of the Federal Energy Management Program and the National Park Service

The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) provided technical support to the National Park Service (NPS) for a selected number of renewable energy projects at national park sites across the United States. FEMP helps federal agencies develop and implement energy efficiency and renewable energy projects at federal sites to meet energy goals and mandates.

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Federal Energy Management Program

Fact sheet describes the Federal Energy Management Program and its mission, and outlines top priorities to achieve key federal agency statutory requirements for facility energy and water management.

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The Power of Partnerships - Federal Energy Management Program and Department of Homeland Security: Resilience Framework

The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) collaborated in a strategic partnership to advance federal critical infrastructure resilience and develop a Resilience Framework to apply across the DHS enterprise. The partnership also established resilience performance metrics and monitoring guidelines, identified best practices for resilience technologies and solutions, and provided technical support.

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INL Waste Management Program Assessment Report

This is an INL annual internal waste management program assessment report that will need to be sent to NNSS for review. The report includes a summary and completed checklists based on the NNSS Waste Acceptance Criteria.

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Federal Energy Management Program’s Technical Resilience Navigator: Communications Plan

The Federal Energy Management Program is working to develop a standard, agency-neutral energy and water technical resilience navigator (TRN) to assist federal agencies with their resilience planning efforts, building on agency-expressed needs. The TRN Communications Plan defines how the project team and FEMP will generate awareness of the TRN, recruit validators, encourage its use across federal agencies, increase awareness among various audiences, and solicit user feedback on its usefulness including suggestions for improvement. In support of this purpose, the communications plan characterizes the key audiences, messages, communications channels, and activities needed to help ensure success. The role of communications is to define strategy and ensure leadership and consistency in messaging, writing, outreach, media relations, editing, and design related to the TRN.

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About the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)

The federal government is the nation's largest energy consumer. Mandated by law, the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) works with its stakeholders to enable federal agencies to meet energy-related goals, identify affordable solutions, facilitate public-private partnerships, and provide energy leadership to the country by identifying government best practices.

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US Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program Energy Treasure Hunt Toolkit

The US Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) aims to assist federal agencies and their stakeholders with their energy-focused goals, opportunities, and barriers. The program offers various technical trainings and resources to its stakeholders. One of these resources is an energy treasure hunt program. This report presents the FEMP energy treasure hunt toolkit, a technical resource designed for systematic application for federal facilities seeking to optimize their energy and carbon usage. The toolkit was designed to help facilitate energy-focused kaizen events, identify energy-saving recommendations, analyze identified opportunities, and provide the tools needed to detect actionable projects to advance federal facilities. Through a collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory team that executed the industrial-focused Better Plants energy treasure hunt program, a similar treasure hunt toolkit was designed for FEMP. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the treasure hunt process and FEMP toolkit capabilities.

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Investigation and Demonstration of Reliability Target Allocation to Support Reliability and Integrity Management Program

Nuclear energy is the most reliable and environmentally sustainable energy source available today. In the United States (U.S.), nuclear-generated power accounts for approximately 20% of total electricity and over 55% of clean energy. New advanced reactors have enormous potential to help further decarbonize the energy market, enhance grid resiliency, create new jobs, and build a stronger economy. More than 50 new reactors are being developed in the U.S., and the federal government realizes an urgent need to deploy nuclear technologies to meet the country’s energy, environmental, and national security goals. As such, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched multiple programs to support advanced reactor deployment. The research described in this report explores implementation strategies for the Reliability and Integrity Management Program that directly supports the DOE goal to enable the near-term deployment of the advanced reactor technologies. The project is conducted under the Regulatory Development Program for advanced reactors sponsored by the DOE.

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Data Driven Analysis for Modernization Program Management

NNSA is responsible for managing national nuclear security missions: ensuring a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear deterrent; supplying nuclear fuel to the Navy; and supporting the nation’s nuclear nonproliferation efforts. However, over half of NNSA’s facilities are more than 40 years old, and roughly one-third date back to the Manhattan Project. To execute its critical nuclear security missions, NNSA is making large investments to modernize its nuclear production capabilities. This ramp up represents NNSA’s largest modernization effort since the Cold War. Given the scale of these efforts, NNSA’s Office of Secondary Stage Production Modernization has implemented data driven techniques to prioritize investments and inform strategic decision making. NNSA, with support from its site managing contractors, has developed and implemented an integrated schedule and risk management system to address the issues and limitations with the traditional approach. The multi-year integrated schedules are key to identifying program linkages and managing large portfolios comprised of many different projects and efforts. In conjunction with the integrated schedule, a new program risk management system has also been developed and implemented, which manages program risks and opportunities, along with specific mitigation strategies to reduce or eliminate the risks per timelines that are tracked in the integrated schedule. This paper is supplemented with a follow-on presentation on effective management of program material and throughput modeling.

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Reliability and Integrity Management Program Implementation Approach

Nuclear energy is the most reliable and environmentally sustainable energy source available today. In the United States, nuclear-generated power accounts for approximately 20% of total electricity and over 55% of clean energy. New advanced reactors have enormous potential to help further decarbonize the energy market, enhance grid resiliency, create new jobs, and build a stronger economy. More than 50 new reactors are being developed in the United States, and the federal government realizes an urgent need to deploy nuclear technologies to meet the country’s energy, environmental, and national security goals. As such, the U.S. Department of Energy launched multiple programs to support advanced reactor deployment. The research described in this paper explores implementation strategies for the Reliability and Integrity Management Program that directly supports the U.S. Department of Energy goal to enable the near-term deployment of the advanced reactor technologies. The project is conducted under the Regulatory Development Program for advanced reactors sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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The United States Federal Energy Management Program lighting energy efficiency 2017 update and impacts

Lighting consumes a great deal of electrical energy in buildings, and the U.S. federal government is the largest single energy consumer in the United States. Therefore, the way that the U.S. federal government manages its lighting energy use is of great importance. One important way that energy use is managed is through Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) energy efficiency requirements. However, there is not much literature on how these requirements are set and how to value the resulting savings. This paper documents the methodology used to develop these for the 2017 FEMP lighting update. A methodology for calculating the total benefits is presented that goes beyond site energy saved, and includes full fuel cycle energy savings, energy cost savings, emissions offset and monetized emissions costs. The results show total benefits of $33 million USD including 475 kilotons of carbon dioxide (CO2) offset under the low compliance scenario, $104 million USD including 1494 kilotons of CO2 offset under the medium compliance scenario, and $217 million USD including 3124 kilotons of CO2 offset under the high compliance scenario.

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Strategic Energy Management Program Persistence and Cost Effectiveness An Analysis of the SEM Program Landscape

This study examines the relationship between strategic energy management (SEM) programs and their persistence and cost effectiveness, with analysis based on interview data from 24 SEM program administrators, SEM program evaluations, and other reports. The 80 interview questions focused on the topics of program design, energy savings, energy savings persistence, cost effectiveness, and customer SEM persistence. The generosity of interview respondents provided a wealth of data, resulting in a report of sufficient length to warrant inclusion of this brief guide of the report structure. The major sections are listed below with brief descriptions. Individual sections of this report are mainly stand-alone and do not require reading of other sections. As a result, there is some duplication between sections, but with differing levels of detail. Executive Summary: Presents three key conclusions of this work with a short description of potential actions to advance the understanding of each key finding. Brief Observations: Lists a large number of bulleted observations resulting from this research, arranged by the five major topic areas included in the interviews. Analysis details are provided in the Analysis of Interview Results section. Foundations for this Research: Provides an overview of SEM, SEM frameworks, SEM programs, the topics of persistence and cost effectiveness, and the focus of this research. Methodology: Details the approach and strategy of this research, providing background information relevant to the formulation of interview questions and the identification of which SEM programs to interview. Observations from Compiled Evaluations and Other Reports: Reports observations from the collection and analysis of program evaluations, annual reports, utility planning documents, and SEM-related white papers. This section, presented in bullet form, highlights challenges in data collection and ultimately a comparison of program practices as they pertain to persistence and cost effectiveness. Analysis of Interview Results: Presents detailed analysis of responses from SEM program administrators, arranged by the five major categories examined: program design, energy savings, energy savings persistence, cost effectiveness, and customer SEM persistence. Interview questions are generally grouped together into subsections when it makes sense to examine them together. SEM Programs Challenge Traditional Cost-Effectiveness Metrics: Details an analysis based on five key factors showing that applying traditional cost-effectiveness metrics to SEM programs is not straightforward. This invites the opportunity to consider whether traditional cost-effectiveness metrics are applicable to SEM programs, either individually or at large. Resolution of Research Hypotheses: Tabulates a set of hypotheses that were developed to address the fundamental nature of the research at hand. Analysis of responses to multiple questions informs an understanding of each hypothesis and can be used to better understand the SEM program environment at large.

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Advanced Reactor Technologies Advanced Reactor Technologies Program Management Plan

The Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) program grew out of earlier Department of Energy efforts to promote next-generation, small modular, and other advanced reactor concepts. It is now sponsored by Office of Advanced Reactor Deployment, NE-52. Because of its peculiar genesis, the program resides at multiple national laboratories and brings in researchers from subcontracting entities and universities. This creates a need for Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL’s) ART to authorize and define work through memorandum purchase orders, inter-entity work orders, and subcontracts. ART manages research and development (R&D) for the Gas-Cooled Reactors (GCRs) Campaign and other advanced-reactor technologies and ensures that Nuclear Regulatory Commission (requirements and stakeholder needs are factored into the R&D activities. The GCR Campaign supports the Next Generation Nuclear Plant High Temperature Reactor as outlined in the Energy Policy Act of 20051 by

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