Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: ● Reduce wildfire risk related to the tree mortality crisis; ● Provide a financial model for funding and scaling proactive forestry management and wildfire remediation; ● Produce renewable bioenergy to spur uptake of tariffs in support of Senate Bill 1122 Bio Market Agreement Tariff (BioMat) for renewable bioenergy projects, and to meet California’s other statutory energy goals; ● Create clean energy jobs throughout the state; ● Reduce energy costs by generating cheap net-metered energy; ● Accelerate the deployment of distributed biomass gasification in California; and ● Mitigate climate change through the avoidance of conventional energy generation and the sequestration of fixed carbon from biomass waste. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety by creating a strong market demand for forestry biomass waste and generating cheap energy. This demand will increase safety by creating an economic driver to support forest thinning, thus reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire and the associated damage to investor-owned utility (IOU) infrastructure, such as transmission lines and remote substations. Preventing this damage to or destruction of ratepayer-supported infrastructure lowers costs for ratepayers. Additionally, the ability of IOUs to use a higher- capacity Powertainer provides a much larger offset against the yearly billion-dollar vegetation management costs borne by IOUs (and hence by ratepayers). The PT+’s significant increase in waste processing capacity also significantly speeds up and improves the economics of wildfire risk reduction, magnifying the benefits listed above. The PT+ will directly increase PG&E’s grid reliability by reducing peak loading by up to 250 kilowatt (kW), and has the potential to increase grid reliability significantly when deployed at scale. The technology will provide on-demand, non- weather dependent, renewable energy. The uniquely flexible nature of this energy will offer grid managers new tools to enhance grid stability and reliability. The technology can be used to provide local capacity in hard-to-serve areas, while reducing peak demand. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of California’s statutory energy goals by substantially reducing the LCOE of distributed g...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: • Develop an optimized approach for the deployment of APMD technology on a large scale in the educational environment that encompasses outreach, education, site identification, technology installation, measurement and verification, and end-user satisfaction analysis. • Generate a large, complex and diverse dataset and analysis that accurately demonstrates the energy efficiency potential of successful APMD technology deployment on a large scale in the educational environment and ability to achieve approximately 10 GWh/year of savings for all deployment sites. • Accelerate broad market adoption of APMD technology by providing a comprehensive dataset and study that will identify energy savings, cost effectiveness, and other benefits to be incorporated into promotional materials and outreach activities targeting IOUs, technology vendors and property owners in educational, institutional, and commercial buildings in California. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability and lower costs, and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This will be achieved by reducing plug-load electricity consumption at community college campuses in the State of California by approximately 10,000,000 kWh/yr by the end of the project. By reducing demand, this project will directly increase the reliability of the State’s electric grid. Reducing demand on the State’s grid will lessen the requirement for utilities to add both generation and distribution capacity, and increase electric system reliability. These savings will ultimately translate to ratepayer savings, and a reduction of over 3,000 metric tons per year in GHG emissions.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: • Help transition the California new home construction market to ZNE. • Demonstrate and investigate the economic feasibility of ZNE for new construction. • Evaluate interactions between occupants and technologies within ZNE homes. • Monitor and develop better understanding of the role of occupant behavior, plug loads, and appliance efficiency of ZNE homes. • Evaluate understanding, valuation, and integration of ZNE as a new home feature within consumer and real estate market-actor decision processes. • Understand consumer energy costs and homebuilder construction costs related to various packages of efficiency features, fuel mixes, and utility rate structures. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety to ratepayers who benefit from the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program. Increased grid reliability will be achieved through the development of 45 to 50 new homes with several efficiency measures being deployed to demonstrate substantial reductions to (and in some cases elimination of) peak demand. Deployment of envelope measures including wall and attic/roof deck insulation, installation of above code seasonal energy efficiency ratio and energy efficiency ratio ducted heat-pump air conditioners and substantially reducing attic temperatures through high performance attics will reduce the impact of new residential homes on the electric grid at peak periods in turn improves grid reliability. Lower costs will be achieved by investigating the differences between the abstract, time- dependent valuation (TDV)-based definition of ZNE and actual consumer costs that would be incurred by residents of ZNE homes under various rate structures, which can help close the gap between policy-based TDV ZNE and real utility costs for consumers. Costs will be lowered by 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). implementing phased development, working through construction-site challenges, allowing for the identific...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: • Develop an integrated hardware and software design solution for a solar plus storage residential use product offering that is Title 24 JA12 compliant; • Demonstrate the solar plus storage system at a minimum of fifteen residential grid- connected sites in Investor Owned Utility service territory, in a minimum of three different climate zones; including at least one in a coastal, central valley, and northern California climate zone as defined by the CEC’s California Building Climate Zone Areas map2; demonstrations shall also include sites Area that has been designated as having a high fire threat as defined by the CPUC at xxxxx://xxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/FireThreatMaps/; and • Evaluate the systems’ performance and cost effectiveness over a minimum one-year pilot demonstration to validate competitive advantage of the system in terms of customer savings, grid harmonization potential, and greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. 2 See xxxxx://xx0.xxxxxx.xx.xxx/maps/renewable/building_climate_zones.html. Ratepayer Benefits:3 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower and predictable costs, increased safety and resilience during future public safety power shutoffs (PSPS). Driven by time of use tariffs, the batteries will shift solar photovoltaic generation from the late morning and early afternoon to the evening peak. The hardware and software innovations to be developed in this project, in conjunction with smart financing, will create a product offering with the capability to reduce customer electricity bills and harmonize utility interconnection. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:4 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by applying a distributed software approach to a proven and scalable solar plus storage platform. The combination of these two technologies will be developed into a standardized modular system and demonstrated at a minimum of 15 residential sites to validate full Title 24 JA12 compatibility.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to:
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to reduce GHG emissions and energy consumption by implementing refrigeration system upgrades and installing a new industrial fryer with heat recovery components.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to reduce GHG emissions and energy consumption by implementing energy efficient upgrades at the biofuels and animal food production facility.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to reduce electricity consumption of the refrigeration system and associated GHG emissions by at least 25 percent at the baked products manufacturing facility by implementing an advanced, high efficiency transcritical CO2 refrigeration system. These savings will also result in reduced operating costs at the facility.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to develop and demonstrate the following technical capabilities: • Flow battery 12-hour discharge at 400 kW of electric load • Flow-battery grid-forming functionality • Flywheel 12-hour discharge at 400 kW of electric load • Flywheel design configuration to share existing ground-mounted solar site if determined to be feasible by the engineering design • Multi-storage MGC applications Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety. The project will improve reliability of electric service by protecting critical customer loads from public safety power shutoffs and other long-duration outage events. It will provide onsite distributed renewable energy resources and energy storage 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). capacity for load shifting to reduce customer electricity costs by $625,366 in Year 1 and $26 million over the project’s 25-year lifetime. It will reduce the Xxxxxx community’s greenhouse gas footprint by 1,004,898 kg of greenhouse gases in Year 1. The project will increase safety for customers by providing resilient energy supplies to protect electric loads from long-duration outages to assure continued service of key public safety assets, including emergency public sheltering and wastewater treatment. It also will reduce local criteria pollutants attributable to diesel combustion. More broadly, the project’s technology advancements will support commercialization of non-Li systems to provide similar reliability, economic, and safety benefits for customers of future projects, including providing safer alternatives to Li battery systems that are susceptible to fires and thermal runaway. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs by supporting technology developments to expand scale and improve performance, functionality, and flexibility of the flow battery and flywheel technologies. Demonstration in a solar microgrid will provid...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: • Support overcoming one of the largest technology barriers to smart shutoff systems by improving the interoperability and acceptance of safety devices. • Reduce the threat imposed on the natural gas infrastructure due to the occurrence of hazardous events such as high temperature or natural gas leak detection. • Enhance the adoption of smart shutoff systems.
