The California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (
PIER) Program is releasing this solicitation to support research, development, and demonstration projects in the area of Environmentally-Preferred Advanced Generation. The broad objectives of the funding opportunity include: increasing efficiency, reducing costs, reducing emissions (including greenhouse gases), and improving the load factors of integrated systems used in commercial and industrial applications for electricity generation, space conditioning, and process heating and/or cooling.
Eligible projects will advance the science, technology, and market penetration in California of grid-connected, combined heat and power, and combined cooling, heat and power systems with prime movers in the range of 50 kilowatts to 10 megawatts. Total funding available for this solicitation is $5.87 million. The funding for this solicitation is comprised of $3.37 million for fiscal year 2006-2007 and $2.5 million for fiscal year 2007-2008. The maximum PIER funding to be awarded for any one proposal is $1.5 million. It is anticipated that four to ten projects will be selected for funding, which will be awarded as grants.
The deadline to submit a proposal is Nov. 15, 2007. Documents for the solicitation are available on the
PIER Web site.