Common use of Benefits Analysis Clause in Contracts

Benefits Analysis. The goal of this task is to analyze ARFVT Program data to gauge progress toward ARFVT Program goals, relying upon a range of benefits metrics. The Contractor shall: • Develop benefit estimates for both Expected and Market Transformation Benefits, relying upon and expanding the benefits analysis framework established in the Phase I CEC-NREL contract. Expected Benefits are benefits directly associated with vehicles and fuels deployed through projects receiving ARFVTP funds. These include, but are not limited to, reductions in petroleum fuel use, criteria and particulate emissions, and GHG emissions, and public health benefits. Market Transformation Benefits are benefits which accrue due to the influence of ARFVTP projects on future market conditions to accelerate the adoption of new technologies. These include increased availability of public electric vehicle supply equipment and hydrogen refueling stations, consumer incentives for zero‐emission vehicles (ZEVs), investments in zero‐emission vehicle demonstrations and manufacturing facilities, and deployment of next‐generation fuel production facilities and advanced medium- and heavy- duty vehicle demonstrations. • Assess Expected Benefit estimates, by developing a more comprehensive and integrated set of benefit metrics to address program requirements, based on advisory committee members and other expert stakeholder recommendations. This will ensure consistency in how metrics are evaluated across projects and fuel/vehicle categories. For example, the Contractor shall perform time series analysis by drawing from the same electricity grid projections for California and other regions, relying upon the Contractor’s grid modeling capabilities, existing published studies, and baseline suggestions from state agencies. Similarly, the GREET model LCA framework (national, or California GREET) and inputs will be relied upon for fuel carbon intensities. This will involve the following: • Metrics framework will exceed anticipated reporting requirements for AB 8 (e.g., will include a broader range of metrics). • Compilation of existing publicly-available data, not collected by the Contractor from individuals, related to analysis of social equity issues, including income, race, and age. • Publicly-available health impact data from EPA, including criteria emission impacts at the county level and any underlying aggregated data on vehicle operation or usage patterns. • Social cost of carbon estimates and guidance on appropriate use for analysis. • Social and environmental benefits associated with petroleum use reductions. • Jobs and economic benefits associated with ARFVTP projects, market impacts, and fuel savings. • Water resource use and impacts data. • Assess Market Transformation Benefits. The analytic capabilities supporting market transformation benefit estimates in Phase I will continue to be improved upon by leveraging existing NREL transportation analysis models to estimate the market impacts of ARFVTP activities within the context of California’s unique transportation sector policy environment. Improvements to this framework in Phase II will link market influence estimates to a select number of state policies to provide more robust and realistic estimates of the market impacts from ARFVTP activities. The feedback between the two estimation methods (Expected and Market Transformation) will ensure consistency and allow for greater flexibility in assessing market influences and resulting benefits associated with ARFVTP activities. The IMIA will incorporate the influence of the following key state and federal policies: • Influence of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ), including GHG factors, on national light duty vehicles (LDV) markets • Influence of the Zero Emission Vehicles (XXX) mandate on California vehicle markets • Influence of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) on fuel prices • Influence of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) on consumer choices • Influence of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on California grid carbon intensity • Prepare and submit annual draft and final ARFVTP Program Benefits Reports, building upon the previous Benefits Report methodology and summarizing the analysis and evaluation results of projects funded to date. This report shall: • Synthesize information from the analysis results for project performance and relevant Market Assessment data from Task 2.0. • Assess ARFVT Program progress toward the 2020 goals and beyond. • As directed by the CAM, draw from available ARFVTP data to analyze program and project- level performance on the basis of petroleum displacement, GHG reductions, project cost efficiency, job creation, or other key metrics deemed appropriate by the CAM.

Benefits Analysis. The goal of this task is to analyze ARFVT Program data to gauge progress toward ARFVT Program goals, relying upon a range of benefits metrics. The Contractor shall: • Develop benefit estimates for both Expected and Market Transformation Benefits, relying upon and expanding the benefits analysis framework established in the Phase I CEC-NREL contract. Expected Benefits are benefits directly associated with vehicles and fuels deployed through projects receiving ARFVTP funds. These include, but are not limited to, reductions in petroleum fuel use, criteria and particulate emissions, and GHG emissions, and public health benefits. Market Transformation Benefits are benefits which accrue due to the influence of ARFVTP projects on future market conditions to accelerate the adoption of new technologies. These include increased availability of public electric vehicle supply equipment and hydrogen refueling stations, consumer incentives for zero‐emission vehicles (ZEVs), investments in zero‐emission vehicle demonstrations and manufacturing facilities, and deployment of next‐generation fuel production facilities and advanced medium- and heavy- duty vehicle demonstrations. • Assess Expected Benefit estimates, by developing a more comprehensive and integrated set of benefit metrics to address program requirements, based on advisory committee members and other expert stakeholder recommendations. This will ensure consistency in how metrics are evaluated across projects and fuel/vehicle categories. For example, the Contractor shall perform time series analysis by drawing from the same electricity grid projections for California and other regions, relying upon the Contractor’s grid modeling capabilities, existing published studies, and baseline suggestions from state agencies. Similarly, the GREET model LCA framework (national, or California GREET) and inputs will be relied upon for fuel carbon intensities. This will involve the following: • Metrics framework will exceed anticipated reporting requirements for AB 8 (e.g., will include a broader range of metrics). 10 xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx/2014publications/CEC-600-2014-005/CEC-600-2014-005-D.pdf • Compilation of existing publicly-available data, not collected by the Contractor from individuals, related to analysis of social equity issues, including income, race, and age. • Publicly-available health impact data from EPA, including criteria emission impacts at the county level and any underlying aggregated data on vehicle operation or usage patterns. • Social cost of carbon estimates and guidance on appropriate use for analysis. • Social and environmental benefits associated with petroleum use reductions. • Jobs and economic benefits associated with ARFVTP projects, market impacts, and fuel savings. • Water resource use and impacts data. • Assess Market Transformation Benefits. The analytic capabilities supporting market transformation benefit estimates in Phase I will continue to be improved upon by leveraging existing NREL transportation analysis models to estimate the market impacts of ARFVTP activities within the context of California’s unique transportation sector policy environment. Improvements to this framework in Phase II will link market influence estimates to a select number of state policies to provide more robust and realistic estimates of the market impacts from ARFVTP activities. The feedback between the two estimation methods (Expected and Market Transformation) will ensure consistency and allow for greater flexibility in assessing market influences and resulting benefits associated with ARFVTP activities. The IMIA will incorporate the influence of the following key state and federal policies: • Influence of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ), including GHG factors, on national light duty vehicles (LDV) markets • Influence of the Zero Emission Vehicles (XXX) mandate on California vehicle markets • Influence of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) on fuel prices • Influence of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) on consumer choices • Influence of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on California grid carbon intensity • Prepare and submit annual draft and final ARFVTP Program Benefits Reports, building upon the previous Benefits Report methodology and summarizing the analysis and evaluation results of projects funded to date. This report shall: • Synthesize information from the analysis results for project performance and relevant Market Assessment data from Task 2.0. • Assess ARFVT Program progress toward the 2020 goals and beyond. • As directed by the CAM, draw from available ARFVTP data to analyze program and project- level performance on the basis of petroleum displacement, GHG reductions, project cost efficiency, job creation, or other key metrics deemed appropriate by the CAM.

Benefits Analysis. The goal of this task is to analyze ARFVT Program data to gauge progress toward ARFVT Program goals, relying upon a range of benefits metrics. The Contractor shall: • Develop benefit estimates for both Expected and Market Transformation Benefits, relying upon and expanding the benefits analysis framework established in the Phase I CEC-NREL contract. Expected Benefits are benefits directly associated with vehicles and fuels deployed through projects receiving ARFVTP funds. These include, but are not limited to, reductions in petroleum fuel use, criteria and particulate emissions, and GHG emissions, and public health benefits. Market Transformation Benefits are benefits which accrue due to the influence of ARFVTP projects on future market conditions to accelerate the adoption of new technologies. These include increased availability of public electric vehicle supply equipment and hydrogen refueling stations, consumer incentives for zero‐emission vehicles (ZEVs), investments in zero‐emission vehicle demonstrations and manufacturing facilities, and deployment of next‐generation fuel production facilities and advanced medium- truckmedium- and heavy- heavy-duty vehicle demonstrations. • Assess Expected Benefit estimates, by developing a more comprehensive and integrated set of benefit metrics to address program requirements, based on advisory committee members and other expert stakeholder recommendations. This will ensure consistency in how metrics are evaluated across projects and fuel/vehicle categories. For example, the Contractor shall perform time series analysis by drawing from the same electricity grid projections for California and other regions, relying upon the Contractor’s grid modeling capabilities, existing published studies, and baseline suggestions from state agencies. Similarly, the GREET model LCA framework (national, or California GREET) and inputs will be relied upon for fuel carbon intensities. This will involve the following: • Metrics framework will exceed anticipated reporting requirements for AB 8 (e.g., will include a broader range of metrics). • Compilation of existing publicly-available data, not collected by the Contractor from individuals, related to analysis of social equity issues, including income, race, and age. • Publicly-available health impact data from EPA, including criteria emission impacts at the county level and any underlying aggregated data on vehicle operation or usage patterns. • Social cost of carbon estimates and guidance on appropriate use for analysis. • Social and environmental benefits associated with petroleum use reductions. • Jobs and economic benefits associated with ARFVTP projects, market impacts, and fuel savings. • Water resource use and impacts data. • Assess Market Transformation Benefits. The analytic capabilities supporting market transformation benefit estimates in Phase I will continue to be improved upon by leveraging existing NREL transportation analysis models to estimate the market impacts of ARFVTP activities within the context of California’s unique transportation sector policy environment. Improvements to this framework in Phase II will link market influence estimates to a select number of state policies to provide more robust and realistic estimates of the market impacts from ARFVTP activities. The feedback between the two estimation methods (Expected and Market Transformation) will ensure consistency and allow for greater flexibility in assessing market influences and resulting benefits associated with ARFVTP activities. The IMIA will incorporate the influence of the following key state and federal policies: • Influence of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ), including GHG factors, on national light duty vehicles (LDV) markets • Influence of the Zero Emission Vehicles (XXX) mandate on California vehicle markets • Influence of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) on fuel prices • Influence of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) on consumer choices • Influence of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on California grid carbon intensity • Prepare and submit annual draft and final ARFVTP Program Benefits Reports, building upon the previous Benefits Report methodology and summarizing the analysis and evaluation results of projects funded to date. This report shall: • Synthesize information from the analysis results for project performance and relevant Market Assessment data from Task 2.0. • Assess ARFVT Program progress toward the 2020 goals and beyond. • As directed by the CAM, draw from available ARFVTP data to analyze program and project- level performance on the basis of petroleum displacement, GHG reductions, project cost efficiency, job creation, or other key metrics deemed appropriate by the CAM.