Notice2025-12574
Application for Authorization To Export Electric Energy; Danske Commodities US LLC
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Published
July 7, 2025
Issuing agencies
Energy Department
Abstract
Danske Commodities US LLC (the Applicant or Danske Commodities) has applied for 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 29857-29858]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12574]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[GDO Docket No. EA-523]
Application for Authorization To Export Electric Energy; Danske
Commodities US LLC
AGENCY: Grid Deployment Office, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: Danske Commodities US LLC (the Applicant or Danske
Commodities) has applied for 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#ffba939a9c8b8d969c968b86d1ba878f908d8b8cbf978ed19b909ad1989089"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4a0f262f293e382329233e33640f323a25383e390a223b642e252f642d253c">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janessa Zucchetto, (240) 474-8226,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#86c3eae3e5f2f4efe5eff2ffa8c3fef6e9f4f2f5c6eef7a8e2e9e3a8e1e9f0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3e6cfc6c0d7d1cac0cad7da8de6dbd3ccd1d7d0e3cbd28dc7ccc68dc4ccd5">[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.
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 31, 2025, Danske Commodities filed an application
(Application or App.) for authorization to transmit electric energy
from the United States to Canada for a term of ten years. App. at 1.
According to the Application, Danske Commodities is a power
marketer with its principal place of business in Stamford, Connecticut.
Id. at 2. The Applicant states that it is ``owned 100% by Equinor US
Holdings Inc. . .., a Delaware corporation.'' Id. Danske Commodities
represents that it is ``authorized by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission. . . to engage in the purchase and sale of physical and/
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or virtual energy in the Day-ahead and Real-time Markets of the various
Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Organizations.''
Id.
The Applicant states that it ``has no electric power supply system
on which the proposed exports could have a reliability, fuel use
system, or stability impact'' and has ``no obligation to serve native
load usually associated with a franchised service area.'' App. at 3-4.
Danske Commodities represents that it will purchase ``power to be
exported from a variety of sources, including but not limited to, power
marketers, independent power producers, or U.S. electric utilities and
federal power marketing entities[.]'' Id. at 4. The Applicant thus
asserts that its proposed exports ``will not impair the sufficiency of
the electric power supply within the U.S.'' Id.
Danske Commodities further asserts that its proposed exports will
not impair or tend to impede the sufficiency of electric supplies in
the U.S. or the regional coordination of electric utility planning or
operations. App. at 5. The Applicant states that it ``will make all
necessary commercial arrangements and will obtain any and all other
regulatory approvals required in order to schedule and deliver power
exports.'' Id. at 4.
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#abeec7cec8dfd9c2c8c2dfd285eed3dbc4d9dfd8ebc3da85cfc4ce85ccc4dd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="13567f767067617a707a676a3d566b637c616760537b623d777c763d747c65">[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#490c252c2a3d3b202a203d30670c3139263b3d3a092138672d262c672e263f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="06436a636572746f656f727f28437e7669747275466e772862696328616970">[email protected]</span></a> in accordance with FERC Rule 214 (18 CFR
385.214).
Comments and other filings concerning Danske Commodities'
Application should be clearly marked with GDO Docket No. EA-523.
Additional copies are to be provided directly to Petra P[aacute]ll,
Danske Commodities US LLC, Vaerkmestergade 3, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e292928ea286838c918987818d8f8f8d868b968b8791cc818d8f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4131312d0125202f322a24222e2c2c2e2528352824326f222e2c">[email protected]</span></a>; Nicholas H. Salalayko, Pierce Atwood LLP,
254 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#88e6fbe9e4e9e4e9f1e3e7c8f8e1edfaebede9fcffe7e7eca6ebe7e5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f79984969b969b968e9c98b7879e92859492968380989893d994989a">[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#5a1f363f392e283339332e23741f222a35282e291a322b743e353f743d352c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a4e1c8c1c7d0d6cdc7cdd0dd8ae1dcd4cbd6d0d7e4ccd58ac0cbc18ac3cbd2">[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. 2025-12574 Filed 7-3-25; 8:45 am]
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