FUNDING AND MANAGEMENT. The Permittees have entered into the FMA, which provides for the sharing of the costs of implementing the HCP. A Permittee’s share of the annual HCP costs shall be determined and paid in accordance with Section 9 of the FMA. In addition, the FMA provides the terms and conditions agreed upon between the Permittees regarding the financing, implementation, and administration of the HCP. Execution of this Agreement and the FMA constitutes each Permittee’s commitment to the Service to meet their funding obligations in accordance with the FMA (subject to financial assistance as described in the FMA) to implement the HCP. The Permittees will promptly notify the Service, if any Permittee’s funding resources (including financial assistance as described in the FMA) have materially changed from information currently available to the Permittees. The notification will include an explanation of the funding change.
FUNDING AND MANAGEMENT. IEA HIA members contribute to a Common Fund for management and promotion. All members are eligible to participate in any/every task at no additional cost on a “task-shared” basis, compensating their experts directly on a person years/year basis. A typical task-shared labor commitment ranges from 0.25–0.5-person years/year. This system is lean and efficient: no money changes hands for labor at the secretariat level. The IEA HIA Secretariat is managed by Xxxx-Xxxx xx Valladares of M.R.S. Enterprises. THE IEA HIA TASKS [3] All IEA HIA tasks are initiated and developed on a democratic “bottom-up” basis by members. Each task is managed by an Operating Agent (OA); subtasks typically have Leaders (STL). Of the 31 tasks created by the IEA HIA, 20 have been completed. Eleven (11) tasks are currently in place. Four-fifths of these current tasks have a strong “renewable to hydrogen” component, denoted by an (RE) in the task list below: Task 21 - BioHydrogen (RE) Task 22 - Fundamental and Applied Hydrogen (H2) Storage Materials Development Task 23 - Small-Scale Reformers for Hydrogen (H2) Production (RE) Task 24 - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Integration (H2) (RE) Task 25 - High Temperature Production from Wind and Solar (RE) Task 26 - Advanced Materials for Hydrogen (H2) WaterPhotolysis (RE) Task 27 - Near-Term Market Routes to Hydrogen (H2) by Co-Utilization of Biomass with Fossil Fuel (RE) Task 28 - Large-Scale Hydrogen (H2) Delivery Infrastructure Task 29 - Distributed and Community Hydrogen (DISCO H2) (RE) Task 30 - Global Hydrogen System Analysis (RE) Task 31 - Hydrogen (H2) Safety To carry out their work programs, all but one task meet for 2-3 days on a semi-annual basis at rotating locations determined by task members. Sometimes the task meetings are held in conjunction with related conferences. The lone exception to the semi-annual interval, Task 22, now meets at nine- month intervals because its Xxxxxx conference style meetings are 4-5 days long. COLLABORATIVE R,D&D The IEA HIA’s core competence, and the main focus of the majority of our tasks, is R&D. IEA HIA R&D is typically long-term, pre-competitive research. However, there is an increasing amount of applied R&D. There are four R,D&D portfolios. R,D&D PRODUCTION Portfolio Of the 20 completed IEA HIA tasks, over half were production related. Today, six (6) of the 11 current tasks are production related. All six (6) deal with renewable H2, exclusively or in part.
FUNDING AND MANAGEMENT. The team’s recommendations are conditioned by several assumptions concerning funding and management. These are: • The level of future ESF funding for DG activities may range from a low of about $750,000 per annum to as much as $3 million. Therefore, the DG program needs to have flexibility to adjust to fluctuating funding levels as well as to shifts in ESF priorities and programs. • Given the uncertainties regarding funding as well as the more short-term focus of ESF funding, the DG activities need to have impact with relatively small levels of funding. The team believes that a “bare bones” DG program -- consisting of support for a few but not all of the illustrative program activities -- can be implemented for about $800,000 per year (not including Mission staff costs). If more funding is available, more of the illustrative activities can be developed and supported. • The DG program must be manageable by the USAID Mission. To this end, the team assumes the bulk of the DG program will be carried out through the issuance of a RFA or RFP. The team also assumes the Mission will have the staff capability to manage the program.
