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: • Deploy an advanced, non-lithium-ion battery storage system rated at 125kW | 500 kWh to validate improvement in power/energy density by >25% from prior product generations. • Commercialize a state-of-the-art, turn-key energy storage solution in California. • Demonstrate fire safety of the aqueous zinc battery technology for wildfire prone regions. • Characterize AC/DC system performance in a variety of utility use cases. • Develop and implement cloud-based data management and analytics to provide end-to-end insights from manufacturing to performance in the field. • Provide greater reliability, lower costs, and improved safety for IOU ratepayers. • Support increased deployment of renewable energy in CA by alleviating the duck curve. • Enable technology advancement to overcome barriers to achieve the state’s statutory energy goals, including AB 32, AB 2514, and SB 350. • Provide new technical capabilities and skilled employment in a disadvantaged community. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety for IOU ratepayers in California. Specifically, the project will provide greater electricity reliability by demonstrating the application and benefits of a most cost-effective and efficient energy storage solution to allow for significant load shifting and reduction of grid congestion. This will allow California to further deploy renewable energy to reach its renewable energy goals, including procuring 50% renewable energy by 2030 and 100% zero-carbon resources by 2045 (SB100). Flexible resources demonstrated in the proposed Project, which can switch state of charge near instantaneously, will help utilities meet these requirements and provide greater electricity reliability to ratepayers. This Agreement will also result in the ratepayer benefit of lower costs by demonstrating the most cost-effective battery technology on the market to allow California IOU’s to more cost-effectively meet their procurement goals under AB 2514, along with savings that are passed down to California ratepayers as there is less of a need for back-up power from natural gas, new peaker plants and/or network upgrades. This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit of increased safety by promoting the development of an energy storage battery product that is non-toxic and nonflammable, helping to mitigate the increasing risks today from wildfires in the state, unlike many oth...
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 reduce GHG emissions and energy consumption by implementing an emerging microgrid system at the Recipient’s brewery.
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 natural gas consumption at the raisin production facility by implementing an optimized hot water and steam system.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal of this Agreement is to improve understanding of potential seabird and wind farm interactions in waters offshore California to support decision-making for project siting, wind farm design, and environmental permitting. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of lower costs and environmental benefits. Offshore wind energy has great potential to contribute to California's SB 100 goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2045. To succeed, concerns about environmental impact, including the possibility of bird and bat deaths, must be addressed. By creating a 3D model to identify offshore wind farm siting and design characteristics that minimize impact on birds and bats, this project can help support environmentally responsible development of this needed renewable energy resource. The specific benefits are listed below: • Lower costs: By enabling environmentally responsible offshore wind farm design and siting, the outputs from this model can help reduce environmental permitting costs. • Environmental benefits: This project will provide environmental benefits by identifying strategies to develop offshore wind farms that result in fewer bird deaths. This provides two types of environmental benefit. First, it will help enable development of a substantial renewable energy resource, thereby helping California meet its clean energy and climate mitigation goals. Second, it will help reduce environmental impacts to birds associated with offshore wind farm development.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal of this agreement is to convene a two-day workshop in Washington, DC to discuss state and local planning for climate resilience and share updated science from California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment. This workshop will describe a broad set of climate assessment activities that evaluate community, infrastructure, and natural resource vulnerabilities in California; and some of the mitigation, adaption, and resiliency strategies that can be implemented to address these vulnerabilities. Participants will disseminate findings of the Fourth California Climate Assessment to a broad audience including other state and local government actors as well as representatives from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and organizations across the federal government. The workshop will also include discussion of weather-related risks.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goals of this Agreement are to: • Develop an integrated FOS system coupling Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering technologies for OWT monitoring • Analyze data from the developed FOS system which includes but is not limited to, OWT real time monitoring of gearbox operations, tower status, and marine animal activities.
