Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 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 providing information to project developers, permitting agencies, and turbine manufacturers about the conflicts between seabirds and turbines at various heights above the sea surface and allow them to design turbines and projects that minimize the impacts The efforts to support environmentally responsible offshore wind development would lead to technological advancement by helping enable California to achieve high renewable energy penetration in the electric grid. Furthermore, the 3D seabird model, will allow turbine manufacturers and project developers understand the conflict between seabirds and turbines at different heights above the sea surface. This understanding will allow the manufacturers and developers to design, build, and deploy technologies that minimize the impacts to seabirds.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 8 This Agreement will support the development and commercialization of technological advancements and breakthroughs that overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by (1) demonstrating how DER Aggregations can effectively balance local generation, storage, building loads, and grid-integrated EVs to simultaneously reduce transmission and distribution costs – which are a rapidly increasing portion of customer bills – provide value to local residents and communities; (2) demonstrating how a Social Impact Bond9 can be used to rehabilitate abandoned, blighted and distressed properties to be ZNCR and sell them at market rates to low- 5 For this project, community resilience is defined as the ability of a community-based DER portfolio to minimize the probability of grid outrages and disruptions, minimize the impacts of grid outages to the community, and increase the ability of the grid to quickly recover from grid outages and disruptions.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs that will significantly reduce natural gas use through the utilization of the Indoor Air Quality Procedure (IAQP) approach to preserve indoor environmental quality through use of advanced sensor and smart building control technologies. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 62.1 applies to all commercial buildings in California with the exception of hospitals. ASHRAE Standard 62.1 contains metrics for environmental contaminants and ventilation rates based on occupancy and space contamination and provides three approaches to meet the standard: 1) ventilation rates; 2) natural ventilation; and 3) Indoor Air Quality Procedure approach. Under the IAQP approach, Standard 62.1 allows customized ventilation rates to be selected based on anticipated contaminants, and validated once the facility is in service. This procedure provides greater flexibility in ventilation to ensure environmental comfort, health and safety, and has the potential to achieve significant energy savings. Most every health care facility has a building automation system that regulates temperature and operates the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. Many of these are vintage systems (pre-2000), and as such function with old firmware chips and sensing devices that are relatively low resolution and have limited programming capability – particularly when compared to what is commercially available today. In this Project, the Recipient will employ modern sensor technologies and enterprise class energy management applications to monitor and store real time information from multiple sources (HVAC/IAQ/Energy) for analysis and fault detection, and to optimize equipment operations through higher order control strategies.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 5 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 demonstrating a 5 MWnet biomass plant integrated with advanced low emissions control technology and a state-of-the-art low water consumption condenser. The technologies that comprise the integrated system have all been successfully used at larger scales (e.g., coal-fired power plants and larger biomass plants) but have not been demonstrated as an integrated system at the relatively small scale (5 MWnet) planned for this project. Nor has the concept for this proposed project been demonstrated using woody biomass. Additional Co-benefits: • Electricity and Thermal Savings – Generate up to 39.5 GWh/yr of renewable electricity for grid export and recover up to 788,400 therms/yr of thermal energy when operated as a combined heat and power plant. • Peak Load Reduction – Reduce peak load on the grid by 5 MW (based on 3 MW BioMAT export plus 2 MW export through other market channels).
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 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 enabling the use of high efficiency cryogenic magnetic refrigeration systems to replace energy intensive compression-based systems within California’s industrial sector. The largest application for cryogenic refrigeration is in the high-tech manufacturing industry (electronics, semiconductors, and computers), which is also the largest and fastest-growing industrial market segment in California. With a magnetic refrigeration system with 50% efficiency in the 80K to 10K region, the average daily electricity consumption for the standard cryogenic refrigeration units reduces electricity usage from approximately 406 kilowatt hours (kWh) to 44 kWh. With successful deployment of these systems the annual energy savings 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). 3 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) also requires EPIC-funded projects to lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers that prevent the achievement of the state’s statutory and energy goals. 2040 in California are estimated to be 2,500 GWh, with $270M of savings in electricity costs, and about 7 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions avoided.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 27 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome the 28 limitations of PV and energy storage technologies that are barriers to achieving California’s 29 statutory renewable energy goals. Additionally, this Agreement will provide for demonstrating the 30 cost competitiveness of commercial hybrid solar PV/T systems plus storage systems against solar 31 PV plus Li-Ion systems, driving adoption of this breakthrough technology.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 In order for the State to meet its renewable energy goals under SB 350 and GHG goals under AB 32 and Executive Order B-30-15, energy storage must be deployed at large scale to offset the variability of renewable solar and wind generation resources. Li-ion batteries have potential to meet some of this demand, but are technically and economically unsuited for high power, short duration dispatch applications (i.e., high cycle applications) because their limited cycle life forces system replacements every 3 – 10 years, with old cells removed and safely recycled to prevent contamination from the toxic materials found in all Li-ion chemistries. This project will result in a demonstration of the recipient’s Prussian Blue (PB) technology at a scale of 100 kWh, a capacity relevant for the EVFC stations and utility markets. This technology will promote the installation of localized energy generation by supporting EVFC and other distributed generation deployments, including behind-the-meter systems. For these two reasons, this project will also help the State meet the goals of the Governor’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan (2011). Agreement Objectives The Agreement Objectives are:
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 The Antora team is developing an innovative 16 thermal storage system that solves the two critical challenges that have traditionally hampered 17 this class of technologies by combining a safe, chemically inert, all-solid storage medium with a 18 thermophotovoltaic (TPV) heat engine. Moving to an all-solid carbon storage medium avoids the 19 cost and complexity associated with managing a molten storage medium, and the cost of our 20 carbon storage media is expected to be more than 10x lower than conventional molten salts.
Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs. 3 The objectives of this Agreement are to: • Validate an entry level LRIP fabrication prototype for capability within +/- 5% of lab/small scale fabrication tools as measured by deposition uniformity in thickness, mass loading, morphology characteristics, as well as Faradaic efficiency, voltage, and lifetime. • Design a deposition protocol that improves throughput by at least 2x current production rate of 115 cm2/hr while maintaining +/- 5 to 15% of low throughput process as measured by deposition uniformity in thickness, mass loading, morphology characteristics, as well as faradaic efficiency (>90%), voltage and stability of these metrics.
