The California Energy Commission is accepting applications for the development of methods for valuation of societal benefits (including economic, public health, and other societal benefits) of customer and grid-resilience investments, such as microgrids, distributed generation, and storage.
Donor Name: California Energy Commission
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/11/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $1,200,000
Details:
The purpose of this solicitation is to fund applied research to collect data and apply methods that contribute to the practical understanding and valuation of electricity system resilience for the purpose of guiding investments by Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) and informing electricity resilience improvements overall. The proposed research is an energy-related environmental research project under the EPIC Interim Investment Plan 2021 initiative “Valuation of Investments in Electricity System Resilience.” It will support two themes articulated in that plan:
- Resilience and Reliability;
- Equity
In summary, researchers supported by this solicitation will:
- conduct empirically-based analysis of societal costs of widespread long-duration power outages related to weather events, including impacts related to health and public safety risks, financial losses, productivity losses, and any other important disruptions;
- characterize these social impacts, with special attention to Disadvantaged Vulnerable Communities as defined by CPUC (Decision 20-08-046);
- analyze these results in a manner that informs electricity system and community resilience planning and investments beyond traditional benefit-cost paradigms—that is, the results should translate into a framework that can broadly inform the design, development, and selection of resilience and reliability measures; and
- be relevant to ongoing regulatory, planning, technology, research, and valuation efforts related to energy resiliency and reliability, thus producing pertinent research products and communications in this rapidly-evolving area.
Funding Information
- There is up to $1,200,000 available for grants awarded under this solicitation. The minimum funding amount is $1,000,000. The maximum funding amount is $1,200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
This solicitation is open to all public and private entities with the exception of local publicly owned electric utilities. In accordance with CPUC Decision 12-05-037, funds administered by the CEC may not be used for any purposes associated with local publicly owned electric utility activities.
For more information, visit CEC.
