Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. Agreement Goals The goals of this Agreement are to: • Implement and operate a DER Community to lower cost and increase community resilience 5 • Demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of all-electric home technology packages in the retrofit and construction of affordable homes • Scale deployment of best-in-class AEC technical & finance strategies in DACs and throughout California Ratepayer Benefits:6 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits greater reliability, lower costs and increased safety. Reliability will be improved by (1) enabling a DER aggregation to balance local generation, storage, building loads, and grid-integrated EVs mitigate the evening ramp period; (2) deploying grid-tied devices into residences and businesses to expand the DER aggregation, and (3) through ZNCR whole-house retrofit strategies7 and building electrification, reducing peak demand permanently. Lower costs will be achieved through (1) energy efficiency savings; (2) properly constructed, commissioned and maintained energy systems, (3) grid services and price arbitrage (to be conducted by the project team); (4) avoiding costly transmission and distribution upgrades. Increased safety is achieved by means of: (1) reducing the dangers of gas leak and explosions by endeavoring to replace natural gas appliances in residences; (2) decreasing the likelihood that contractors install devices in an unsafe manner (both to themselves and others).
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. Student volunteering is an integral part of Bucks Students’ Union. We strive to create personal development opportunities by strengthening Community Partner relationships. By acting in accordance with this agreement, we aim to: • To support community partners and help meet the need to recruit volunteers for their organisation which in turn supports the local community. • To ensure the Bucks Students’ Union Activities Coordinator (Volunteering & Charity Fundraising) follows procedure to recruit student volunteers for opportunities. • To ensure student volunteers are prepared and understand the expectations of the organisation in which they have applied and understand the commitment required for the duration of the project. • To ensure all Bucks student volunteers receive a high quality experience whilst volunteering, helping them develop as a person, prepare for life after university and better their overall student experience.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. U Agreement Goals The goal of this agreement is to fund an engine development project that focuses on the advancement of an ultra clean burning natural gas engine suitable for use in various heavy-duty vehicle applications. The engines and associated exhaust after-treatment technologies should be capable of: • Achieving emissions targets of 0.02 g/bhp-hr NOx, 0.01 g/bhp-hr particulate matter (PM), 0.14 g/bhp-hr non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and 15.5 g/bhp- hr Carbon Monoxide (CO) or lower as determined by the heavy-duty engine federal test procedure (FTP). • Keeping exhaust Ammonia (NH3) emissions as low as achievable. Projects that address methods to maintain NH3 emission at 10 parts per million or lower. • Being thermally and fuel efficient. Developed engines that achieve 20% or lower engine thermal efficiency penalty or fuel economy penalty when compared to 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and CARB certified diesel engines in similar duty cycle.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. Agreement Goals The goals of this Agreement are: Green Building & Energy Goals: ● Measure the reduction of energy consumption by introducing modeling tools to demonstrate the amount of energy reduced throughout the buildings. ● Measure how the building system will reduce the cost to build and maintain over amortization of the lifetime of the building ● Measure and analyze how the project will reduce pollution by making the new development from low embodied carbon materials to reduce both embodied and operational carbon footprints ● Identify local materials for project build phase and labor wherever possible. ● Demonstrate how the project reduces the time to build by employing a highly pre- engineered system that cuts time from the construction schedule (through onsite, community-led modular building construction) and reduces construction cost. ● Analyze and demonstrate the reduction of energy used by tenants ● Report how and where tenants were involved in the design process and able to understand how to monitor their homes energy consumption ● Utilizes the ZEDPower platform to deliver broader access to emissions-free transportation modalities. ● Pay back the “carbon debt” from the construction process. ● Design the entire building enclosure to capture energy from sunlight and provide exterior spaces covered with solar canopies for an improved community experience. ● Smart Spaces feature advanced sensing and machine-learning technologies that are extremely effective at reducing wasted energy and optimizing energy consumption through active load management. ● Create a model so that the developer/owner and the tenant all share the benefits of the energy assets in a win-win, simple to operate incentive structure. Knowledge Transfer & Community Goals: ● Increase community and residential knowledge transfer in clean energy and emerging green technologies industries ● Incentivize Smart Energy Behavior by capturing the financial benefits of investments in distributed energy resources. ● Design a system that incentivizes tenants to use energy during the day when the sun is shining or to schedule scheduled loads when plentiful solar energy is available. ● Design an on-site, publicly available Community Center ● Integrate community knowledge transfer into the development ● Demonstrate how the design advances the education of individuals from all walks of life by sharing the experience and best practices gained from the networks of ecovillages and sustainable communit...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. Agreement Goals The goals of this Agreement are to: • Build a coating tool for the fabrication of organic photovoltaic modules capable of handling commercially fabricated window glass. • Utilize coating tool to fabricate films with high aesthetic quality suitable for commercial window applications. • Build necessary equipment to complete a large area coating line. • Build and install a demonstration wall utilizing modules fabricated on large area coating line. • Build and test a module with commercially relevant techniques at commercially relevant sizes. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety by accelerating the commercialization of energy generating windows. Greater reliability will be achieved by enabling net zero energy building by providing onsite energy generation to buildings. This will allow ratepayers to have reliable energy in self-sustaining buildings even during rolling blackouts and will reduce demand on California’s energy grid. This approach also allows for lower cost through much lower module and balance of system costs, compared to other photovoltaic technologies, by utilizing substantial costs that are already being paid for in conventional windows by building owners. This significant innovation will have a profound impact on EPIC goals to lower cost; a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.03/kWh by 2030. This technological advancement will produce a product that increases safety of California ratepayers by significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Commercial buildings are one of the largest contributors of GHG emissions in California and in the world. The technology will address the missing ingredient for zero- and negative emission generation buildings for clean onsite energy generation. 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 rapid innovation of low-cost energy generating windows. This breakthrough technology converts infrared light into electricity allowing windows to look and function as high performance Low-Emissivity windows, while also generating significant clean energy. The accomplishments of this project will remove some last barriers between current benchtop scale and pilot scale, critical progress towards pilot production and will be a leap...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. Agreement Goals The goals of this Agreement are to: ● Benefit California investor-owned electric utility ratepayers by increasing reliability, lowering costs, and increasing safety through four tiers of critical load resilience. ● Lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs that overcome barriers to achieving the state’s statutory energy goals through integration of both existing and emerging zero-emission technologies. ● Increase access to affordable housing in an innovative mixed-use development within walking and biking distance of new jobs, shared community space, and electric vehicle car sharing. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit(s) of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, or increased safety by providing 1) distributed energy resources that have a high degree of redundancy so that a single failure of any part of the system can be tolerated, 2) real time energy monitoring of all circuits to provide actionable feedback to tenants and to identify energy reduction opportunities and energy “leaks,” as well as use of artificial intelligence to monitor and optimize energy usage behaviors; and 3) zero up-front economic investment to tenants to clean power generation and management. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs that overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by focusing on the scalability of the project regardless of the region. Each commercially available and pre-commercial technology selected for the project is orchestrated and balanced in a novel, scalable, and resilient manner. Project elements are designed for reproducibility, leveraging both the selected technologies and alternate distributed energy resources depending on the climate, local topographies, the community, and the space constraints of future projects. Implementation of flexible load management controls abstract the source of clean energy. The project will provide vital technology integration and demonstration data that will be studied, analyzed, and disseminated by our consortium of university and regional partners to create new best practices to achieve goals identified by the CEC.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. The Contractor shall purchase lamps as directed by the Contract Manager (CAM), inspect them, prepare the test space for testing, perform energy efficiency testing by following the applicable test method, and generate a test report documenting the findings. No later than the completion of the contract, tested lamps shall be delivered to a local facility in Sacramento, California, as directed by the CAM. The Contractor shall ensure the proper protocols are followed to demonstrate consistent, accurate and repeatable testing. The Contractor shall also be available for the following activities, including but not limited to, attending meetings in person and by phone to address technical lamp testing concerns, reviewing and commenting on new or proposed Appliance Efficiency Regulations, observing testing at remote locations (including other labs), and reviewing test reports as needed.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. The goals of Retrofit Bay Area mirror those of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: (a) energy savings, (b) job creation/preservation, and (c) economic recovery. The proposed program will create jobs and stimulate the economy through a comprehensive program to implement energy retrofits in existing residential buildings. To achieve these goals, Retrofit Bay Area has identified a set of three core program objectives that address the major barriers to market transformation and guide program design. These three objectives aim to spur comprehensive residential energy retrofits on a broad scale. • Provide financing mechanisms, including both Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing (when not inhibited by FHFA) and alternative financing such as secured and unsecured loans, to address the high upfront cost of retrofits. Retrofit Bay Area will build on the region’s existing investments into municipal financing programs and reduce or remove these barriers for a wide range of projects and population segments. Funding will not be used to directly fund municipal financing programs. • Demonstrate more effective marketing and outreach methods to inform and motivate property owner participation. Retrofit Bay Area will bundle homeowner incentives (e.g., PACE when appropriate and other secured and unsecured financing, utility and local government rebates, tax credits, etc.) and employ an array of innovative outreach methods that reflect current behavioral science research; more effectively communicate current value propositions, and create new ones. Marketing and outreach messaging will strongly promote Tier 3 whole-house retrofits. • Streamline participant, contractor, and administration processes to reduce the high transaction costs and build a quality green workforce. Retrofit Bay Area will use new cutting-edge data and decision software tools to reduce transaction costs for both contractors and the program. These innovations can contribute greatly to the growth and maturity of the building performance industry that will be capable of delivering building energy performance with strong momentum toward a mass scale at more reasonable cost. Retrofit Bay Area will leverage this investment to ensure that program design, homeowner incentives, and contractor incentives all strongly encourage and promote whole-house (Tier 3) strategies and align with utility whole-house rebate programs. Retrofit Bay Area will focus resources on Tier 2 and Tier 3 approaches, consis...
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. The activities conducted under this Agreement will contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions from the building sector by supporting the integration of high-performance building designs and near-zero-emission building technologies, with a priority to address low-income and affordable multifamily housing. The contractor will provide technical assistance and education and outreach supporting BUILD to achieve these program objectives. 1 Two years from the CEC’s issuance of the BUILD Program’s Notice of Availability. WORK AUTHORIZATIONS For certain tasks, as specified below, no work shall be undertaken unless authorized by the CAM through a specific written document called a “Work Authorization.” For tasks subject to a Work Authorization, the CAM will prepare a Work Authorization that identifies the specific tasks to be performed and sets a maximum price, budget, and schedule for the work as further described in Exhibit E, section 2. The end date for Work Authorizations should be no later than 60 days prior to the term end date of the Agreement to allow the Contractor time to complete closeout activities and prepare the Final Report. All other tasks may begin immediately, as appropriate and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement. The goals of this Agreement are to service the existing revolving loan fund (RLF) loan and loan loss reserve (LLR) portfolio, and to comply with both State and Federal reporting requirements. The activity contemplated in this Agreement is to service existing RLF loans and LLR loans to low to moderate income individual California homeowners, which were used to perform energy efficient residential retrofit improvements. The Contractor will make good-faith efforts to enforce the loan obligations in the event of borrower default. However, the Contractor will not be required to replenish or replace any funds awarded pursuant to this Agreement that are lost due to loan defaults. Losses due to defaults by borrowers are anticipated and are an allowable cost under this Agreement, but Contractor shall take commercially reasonable efforts to minimize such losses to the extent such efforts are economically feasible. This recognition is consistent with the clarification on loan defaults provided in DOE’s SEP Notice 10-008B, effective August 10, 2010. The objectives of this Agreement are:
