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: • 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 goal of this Agreement is to: • Develop an AI system capable of automatically performing site-specific techno-economic analyses and front-end engineering on hundreds of potential industrial decarbonization measures with minimal user input • Validate that the AI can learn from expert users by teaching it how to analyze two real industrial facilities • Validate the speed, accuracy, and user-friendliness of the AI through early pilot testing with untrained non-expert users and real data from the two industrial facilities. An untrained non-expert user should be able to produce a customer-worth report in less than four hours with limited data in-hand. • Validate that the AI can learn from prior projects by testing this capability with simulated data. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety. Reliability will be achieved by facilitating the addition 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 of base load to the grid (via industrial electrification), support for industrial-scale load shifting and demand response, and facilitating distributed generation. Cost savings will be achieved via energy efficiency and fuel-switching projects. Increased safety will be achieved via improved air quality for communities adjacent to industrial facilities. 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 developing an AI system for front-end engineering of industrial decarbonization projects. The cost, time and effort required for front-end engineering is currently a major barrier to achieving statutory GHG reductions specified in AB32. The AI will overcome this barrier by reducing the cost of front-end engineering by a factor of 10x (from $50,000 to $5,000) and accelerating the timeline by a factor of 4x (from 4 months to 1 month). The AI will achieve these results through a novel application of KRR and ML, allowing the AI to learn from present and past industrial decarbonization projects and automatically apply that knowledge to future projects.
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 at the pie production facility by implementing energy efficient upgrades and replacing high- GWP refrigerants.
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...
