Notice2025-12559
Application for Renewal of Authorization To Export Electric Energy; H.Q. Energy Services (US) Inc.
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Published
July 7, 2025
Issuing agencies
Energy Department
Abstract
H.Q. Energy Services (US) Inc. (the Applicant or HQUS) has applied for renewal of its authorization to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to the Federal Power Act.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 127 (Monday, July 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29856-29857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12559]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[GDO Docket No. EA-182-F]
Application for Renewal of Authorization To Export Electric
Energy; H.Q. Energy Services (US) Inc.
AGENCY: Grid Deployment Office, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: H.Q. Energy Services (US) Inc. (the Applicant or HQUS) has
applied for renewal of its authorization to transmit electric energy
from the United States to Canada pursuant to the Federal Power Act.
DATES: Comments, protests, or motions to intervene must be submitted on
or before August 6, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, motions to intervene, or requests for
more information should be addressed by electronic mail to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2a6f464f495e584349435e53046f525a45585e596a425b044e454f044d455c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="77321b121403051e141e030e59320f0718050304371f065913181259101801">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janessa Zucchetto, (240) 474-8226,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#73361f161007011a101a070a5d360b031c010700331b025d171c165d141c05"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="07426b626473756e646e737e29427f7768757374476f762963686229606871">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The United States Department of Energy (DOE)
regulates electricity exports from the United States to foreign
countries in accordance with section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act
(FPA) (16 U.S.C. 824a(e)) and regulations thereunder (10 CFR 205.300 et
seq.). Sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the DOE Organization Act (42
U.S.C. 7151(b) and 7172(f)) transferred this regulatory authority,
previously exercised by the now-defunct Federal Power Commission, to
DOE.
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Section 202(e) of the FPA provides that an entity which seeks to
export electricity must obtain an order from DOE authorizing that
export (16 U.S.C. 824a(e)). On April 10, 2023, the authority to issue
such orders was delegated to the DOE's Grid Deployment Office (GDO)
under Redelegation Order No. S3-DEL-GD1-2023.
On March 12, 2025, HQUS filed an application (Application or App)
for renewal of export authorization to transmit electric energy from
the United States to Canada for a term of five years. App. at 1.
According to the Application, HQUS is a power marketer with its
principal place of business in Hartford, CT. Id. at 1. The Applicant
states that it is ``a wholly-owned subsidiary of H.Q. Energy Holdings,
Inc. and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec[.]'' Id.
at 2. HQUS represents that it is ``an energy marketer engaged [sic] the
business of buying and selling electricity for its own account and
brokering electricity for others, transmission services and related
activities'' and that it ``has been authorized by [the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission] to sell electricity in interstate commerce at
market-based rates.'' Id. at 3.
The Applicant states that it ``neither owns generation resources,
nor has a franchised service area or native load obligation.'' App. at
5. HQUS represents that ``[t]he electric energy that [it] will export
to Canada from these markets, on either a firm or interruptible basis,
will not impair the sufficiency of the electric energy supply within
the United States.'' Id. at 7. The Applicant also states that it ``does
not have the ability to cause total exports on cross-border facilities
to exceed the authorized instantaneous transmission rate[.]'' Id. at 6.
HQUS represents that it will schedule its export transactions ``in
compliance with applicable [North American Electric Reliability
Corporation] reliability criteria, standards and guidelines in effect
at the time of a proposed export along with those of relevant regional
reliability organizations.'' Id. at 9.
The existing international transmission facilities to be utilized
by the Applicant have been previously authorized by Presidential
permits issued pursuant to Executive Order 10485, as amended, and are
appropriate for open access transmission by third parties. See App. at
Exhibit C.
Procedural Matters: Any person desiring to be heard in this
proceeding should file a comment or protest to the Application at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#387d545d5b4c4a515b514c41167d4048574a4c4b785049165c575d165f574e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f5b099909681879c969c818cdbb08d859a878186b59d84db919a90db929a83">[email protected]</span></a>. Protests should be filed in accordance
with Rule 211 of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) Rules
of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to
become a party to this proceeding should file a motion to intervene at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#195c757c7a6d6b707a706d60375c6169766b6d6a597168377d767c377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="50153c3533242239333924297e1528203f2224231038217e343f357e373f26">[email protected]</span></a> in accordance with FERC Rule 214 (18 CFR
385.214).
Comments and other filings concerning HQUS' Application should be
clearly marked with GDO Docket No. EA-182-F. Additional copies are to
be provided directly to Marie-Eve Cayer, Senior Legal Counsel, Hydro
Quebec, 800 De Maisonneuve East Blvd., 11th Floor, Montreal, Quebec H2L
4M8, Canada, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4a7a5bda1b6eaa9a5adb6a1a1b2a184acbda0b6abb5b1a1a6a1a7eaa7aba9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1c7f7d65796e32717d756e79796a795c7465786e736d69797e797f327f7371">[email protected]</span></a>, and Jerry Pfeffer, Energy
Industries Advisor, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, 1440 New
York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#13797661616a3d63757675757661536078727777767d3d707c7e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e08a85929299ce90868586868592a0938b818484858ece838f8d">[email protected]</span></a>.
A final decision will be made on the requested authorization after
the environmental impacts have been evaluated pursuant to DOE's
National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR part
1021) and after DOE evaluates whether the proposed action will have an
adverse impact on the sufficiency of supply or reliability of the
United States electric power supply system.
Copies of this Application will be made available, upon request, by
accessing the program website at <a href="https://www.energy.gov/gdo/pending-applications-0">https://www.energy.gov/gdo/pending-applications-0</a> or by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8acfe6efe9fef8e3e9e3fef3a4cff2fae5f8fef9cae2fba4eee5efa4ede5fc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="753019101601071c161c010c5b300d051a070106351d045b111a105b121a03">[email protected]</span></a>.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on June 30,
2025, by Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.
That document with the original signature and date is maintained by
DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with
requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE
Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit
the document in electronic format for publication, as an official
document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no
way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the
Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2025.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-12559 Filed 7-3-25; 8:45 am]
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