Donor Name: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/16/2022
Details:
The Advanced Technology Demonstration and Pilot Project program is intended to strategically accelerate the advancement of innovative and economically viable technologies into the commercial marketplace that support the State’s equity and emission reduction goals. These goals are realized by being able to provide targeted funding that is significant enough to help guide development of encouraging technologies, and relevant enough to showcase the economic and environmental benefits. Historically, 99% of demonstration and pilot project funds have been located in disadvantaged communities or benefit priority populations
The majority of the program’s funds will be utilized as grants to eligible applicants to support applications for funding that result from the open solicitation for advanced technologies. Five project categories are eligible for the technical solicitation:
- Municipal Green Zones: Zero-emission holistic projects that could be focused on almost any operations within a city, municipality, or group of cities that currently use combustion technologies in carrying out the duties of the municipality and breaking down barriers to zero-emission vehicle and equipment adoption.
- Resilient Zero-Emission Vessel Charging Project: Deployment of on-site renewable power generation to provide renewable charging or refueling for zero-emission capable commercial harbor craft.
- Modular Zero-Emission Capable Cargo Handling Equipment Demonstration: Build and deploy zero-emission cargo handling equipment, such as container handling or bulk equipment, or other off-road equipment that would be designed with modular powertrains and energy systems to facilitate the transition to full zero-emission operations as technology evolves.
- Reductions from Ocean Going Vessels:
- Funding to demonstrate the feasibility of hydrogen fuel cells to replace auxiliary engine operations on an ocean-going vessel while at berth or anchor.
- Demonstrate a hydrogen fuel cell or other low carbon technology to power a shore power barge which could be used to provide shore power to berths without such equipment or to shore power capable vessels at anchor.
- Barge mounted capture and control systems for ocean going vessels at berth or anchor
- Zero-Emission Intrastate Line Haul Locomotive: Demonstrate a zero-emission locomotive that can operate in intrastate line haul operations such as a port-railyard route without requiring additional diesel locomotives in the consist
Eligibility Criteria
This competitive solicitation is open to California-based public entities, or California-based non-profit organizations with experience in administering large scale demonstration and pilot projects.
For more information, visit CARB.
