Paving the Way for California’s Gas Transition Grant - fundsforNGOs

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is seeking applications for its Paving the Way for California’s Gas Transition Grant.

Donor Name: California Energy Commission (CEC)

State: California

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 05/30/2025

Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million

Grant Duration: 4 Years

Details:

The purpose of this solicitation is to fund applied research projects that meet the following initiatives:

Location-Specific Analysis of Decommissioning to Support Long-Term Gas Planning (Gas Research and Development (R&D) Budget Plan FY 2021-2022)
Scaled-Up Gas Decommissioning Pilots and Integrated Planning Tools (Gas R&D Budget Plan FY 2022-2023)

The State of California aims to greatly decrease reliance on fossil gas (commonly known to consumers as natural gas) over the next few decades, including by electrifying current gas end uses, decommissioning gas system infrastructure, reducing gas-fired power generation, and potentially by integrating lower-carbon gases into the utility gas system or deploying other alternatives to fossil gas. The focus of this solicitation is understanding and supporting both the prerequisites to and impacts of conversion from gas end uses in the residential and commercial sectors, considered in the context of a transition from fossil gas use overall.

This solicitation funds research to address the challenges via empirically-based analysis that improves understanding of factors in societal, market, and technical systems that perpetuate fossil gas use in California homes and buildings and how these systems can be transformed to reduce reliance on gas. Results will help fill knowledge gaps and overcome weaknesses in approaches now limiting how well programs and policies are able to translate state goals into a successful transition on the ground, including by creating more effective problem framings that are sharable across transition participants. Funded research projects will identify, support, develop, or inspire technological, market, supply chain, investment, communications, implementation, or other innovations and improvements that can help motivate conversion from fossil gas to lower carbon alternatives. Findings will also contribute to the likelihood of positive outcomes from these conversions, formulate options to manage enduring barriers to conversion from gas, and inform infrastructure planning, including by improved consideration of locational considerations.

Projects must fall within the following project groups:

Group 1: Gas System Decarbonization and Decommissioning in Rural and/or Tribal Areas; and
Group 2: Fieldwork and Analysis Across the Value Chain to Support Gas End Use Conversion.

Funding Information

Group 1: Gas System Decarbonization and Decommissioning in Rural and/or Tribal Areas
- Available funding: $600,000
- Minimum award amount: $500,000
- Maximum award amount: $600,000
Group 2: Fieldwork and Analysis Across the Value Chain to Support Gas End Use Conversion (2 grants)
- Available funding: $1,600,000
- Minimum award amount: $600,000
- Maximum award amount: $800,000.

Grant Period