Notice2025-12953
Application for Authorization To Export Electric Energy; DRW Energy Trading LLC
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Published
July 11, 2025
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Energy Department
Abstract
DRW Energy Trading LLC (the Applicant or DRW Energy) has applied for authorization to transmit electric energy from the United States to Mexico pursuant to the Federal Power Act.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 131 (Friday, July 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30902-30903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12953]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[GDO Docket No. EA-525]
Application for Authorization To Export Electric Energy; DRW
Energy Trading LLC
AGENCY: Grid Deployment Office, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: DRW Energy Trading LLC (the Applicant or DRW Energy) has
applied for authorization to transmit electric energy from the United
States to Mexico pursuant to the Federal Power Act.
DATES: Comments, protests, or motions to intervene must be submitted on
or before August 11, 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#d095bcb5b3a4a2b9b3b9a4a9fe95a8a0bfa2a4a390b8a1feb4bfb5feb7bfa6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d194bdb4b2a5a3b8b2b8a5a8ff94a9a1bea3a5a291b9a0ffb5beb4ffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janessa Zucchetto, (240) 474-8226,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#26634a434552544f454f525f08635e5649545255664e570842494308414950"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="246148414750564d474d505d0a615c544b565057644c550a404b410a434b52">[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.
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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 May 6, 2025, DRW Energy filed an application (Application or
App.) for authorization to transmit electric energy from the United
States to Mexico for a term of ten years. App. at 1.
According to the Application, DRW Energy is a power marketer with
its principal place of business in Houston, Texas. Id. at 1. The
Applicant states that it is ``the wholly owned subsidiary of DRW
Holdings, LLC.'' Id. DRW Energy represents that ``The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted [it] authority to sell
wholesale power at market-based rates under a market-based rate
tariff.'' Id. at 1-2 & Exhibit G.
DRW Energy represents that it will purchase ``power to be exported
from a variety of sources, including but not limited to, power
marketers, independent power producers, and U.S. electric utilities and
federal power marketing entities.'' App. at 2. The Applicant thus
asserts that because this power is surplus to the system of the
generator, its proposed exports ``will not impair the sufficiency of
the electric power supply within the United States.'' Id.
DRW Energy 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 3. The Applicant states that it ``will make all
necessary commercial arrangements and will obtain any other required
regulatory approvals to schedule and deliver its power exports.'' Id.
The Applicant states that the electricity it plans to export ``will be
transmitted under arrangements with utilities that own and operate
existing transmission facilities, consistent with the export
limitations and other terms and conditions contained in existing
Presidential Permits and electricity export authorizations associated
with these transmission facilities.'' Id. The Applicant further states
it will schedule transactions in compliance with reliability standards
and guidelines established by the North American Reliability
Corporation. Id.
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#62270e070116100b010b161b4c271a120d101611220a134c060d074c050d14"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fabf969f998e889399938e83d4bf828a95888e89ba928bd49e959fd49d958c">[email protected]</span></a>. Protests should be filed in accordance
with Rule 211 of 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#8dc8e1e8eef9ffe4eee4f9f4a3c8f5fde2fff9fecde5fca3e9e2e8a3eae2fb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1a5f767f796e687379736e63345f626a75686e695a726b347e757f347d756c">[email protected]</span></a> in
accordance with FERC Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214).
Comments and other filings concerning DRW Energy's Application
should be clearly marked with GDO Docket No. EA-525. Additional copies
are to be provided directly to Michael J. Lowell, Esq., Reed Smith LLP,
1301 K Street NW, Suite 1000--East Tower, Washington, DC 20005,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c1acadaeb6a4adad81b3a4a4a5b2aca8b5a9efa2aeac"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f222320382a23230f3d2a2a2b3c22263b27612c2022">[email protected]</span></a>; Jon Hoff, DRW Energy Trading LLC, 1500 Post Oak
Blvd., Suite 1625, Houston, TX 77056, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9df7f5f2fbfbddf9efeaf5f2f1f9f4f3faeeb3fef2f0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="741e1c1b1212341006031c1b18101d1a13075a171b19">[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#b1f4ddd4d2c5c3d8d2d8c5c89ff4c9c1dec3c5c2f1d9c09fd5ded49fd6dec7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="56133a333522243f353f222f78132e2639242225163e277832393378313920">[email protected]</span></a>.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on July 7,
2025, by Chris Wright, Secretary 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 9, 2025.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-12953 Filed 7-10-25; 8:45 am]
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