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Appendix D: Letter Report
Appendix D: Letter Report
Pages 62-69
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D Letter Report November 15, 2004 tion, the value of government funding for a particular project David Garman, Assistant Secretary depends on what might happen if the government did not Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy support the project. Would some private entity undertake it U.S.
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vestment guidelines for applied R&D as well as for more Completed in 2001, the retrospective study conducted by basic research programs.8 OMB also began the evolutionary the NRC reported that, in the aggregate, the benefits of fed development of the Program Assessment and Rating Tool eral energy R&D exceeded the costs, but it observed that the (PART) , which ranks programs on the basis of both their DOE portfolio included both striking successes and expen likely benefits and the quality of program design and mansive failures.
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relevant to the study. Although the 14As of this writing, the expert panels had begun, but not completed, committee believes these programs are sufficient for the purposes of this their work of applying the methodology to DOE programs.
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ogy. It is possible for a research program to meet all of its SOURCE: National Research Council.
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Note that while the prob- efits that vary with the future state of the world -- indeed, ability of a scenario's occurrence may significantly affect sometimes different possible future scenarios drive different the estimated benefits of a program, the committee believes programs. that the probability is determined by DOE policy.
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(retired) ogy, including the use of expert panels; Jack Siegel · A summary of the reports prepared by the expert panels President, Technology and Markets Group for the three test programs -- advanced solid state lighting, Energy Resources International, Inc.
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These questions would apply to work by others in the United States and in other parts of the world. The committee's proposed methodology for the prospec Is this an area of intense competitive activity or is it primative evaluation of DOE research and development programs rily left to the government?
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APPENDIX D 69 The final "other `option' scenario" column in the prospec- the U.S. economy under normal conditions....
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