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2011 UC Solar Research symposium U C Merced U.C. Merced December 9, 2011 Prab Sethi Senior Project Manager California Energy Commission Sacramento

PIER

• IOU ratepayer funded program that was started in 1997 by AB1890
• Does research that is in the public interest that the private sector may not cover
• Each residential customer pays approximately $2.30 a year.

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PIER Funding

• $678 million funding used through the end of 2010
• $62 5 million per year used for electric research
• $62.5 million per year used for electric research
• Expanded in 2005 by CPUC rule to include $12M per year ($24M by 2009) of natural gas research.

PIER Funding by Research Category (1996‐2010)

4% Energy Efficiency and Demand Response

PIER Renewable Investments by Development Stage

33% 19% 13% 8% 4% p Renewables Advanced Electricity Generation Transmission and D i ib i 23% Dsitribution Climate/Environmental Transportation

Source: California Energy Commission

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PIER Funding

• PIER funding approved until December 31, 2011.
• CPUC is holding hearing for Order Instituting Rulemaking to determine impact on public benefits
• Decision for Phase I on November 15, 2011
• Phase II hearing continuing

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PIER Benefits

• Responsible for more than 5,500 jobs during 1st quarter of 2011 according to IMPLAN model.

– 2,128 active jobs, 1,250 indirect jobs, and 2,180 induced jobs leading to the estimated collection of $2 3 illi i t t t $2.3 million in state taxes

• During 2010, PIER investment of $21 million in research funding was matched with more than $500

million in Federal stimulus from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). It also leveraged more than $900 million in private venture funding – bringing in 70 dollars for every $1 that California more than $900 million in private venture funding – bringing in 70 dollars for every $1 that California invested in its future energy future.

• Approximately $700 million spent in energy research, has attracted $510 million in match funding, not

including ARRA including ARRA

• Energy Innovation Small Grants (EISG) has attracted $40 of private investment for every $1 of PIER funds,

with a total of $1.3 billion of follow‐on private investment since 1999. EISG, which has received 5% of PIER’s funding, has generated an estimated 10,000 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect and induced jobs over g g j j its lifespan.

• PIER contributions to the 2008 Building Efficiency Standards, the 2010 Appliance Efficiency Standards, and

the 2007 Appliance Efficiency Standards are expected to save the state multi‐million dollars per year when fully implemented.

• A number of companies have been started based on initial funding from PIER programs, such as Clean

Energy Systems and Primus Power 5

California Energy Policies

2010 2020 2016

Reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels (~25% reduction from BAU) (2020) Accelerated RPS (f SB 1078/ IEPR / Renewables % f i Renewables % f i ( % ) ( ) All emissions from new baseload generation must be at or below emissions from a natural gas combined cycle plant (2020) AB‐32 (from SB 1078/ IEPR / EAP / Governor’s Order S‐14‐08 & S‐21‐09) 33% of Generation (~104,000 GWh) 20% of RPS from biopower (~20,000 GWh) 20% of Generation (~56,000 GWh) 20% of RPS from biopower (~11,000 GWh) State Bioenergy Goal (E ti O d SB‐1 and California 40% biofuels produced in California New Roof‐top Solar PV 3,000 MW

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20% biofuels produced in California (Executive Order S‐06‐06) Solar Initiative (~5,000 GWh1) (2016) All new residential zero net energy 2007 IEPR Governor Brown’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan 20,000 MW Additional Renewables (12,000 MW DG) (8,000 MW Utility Scale)

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California’s Energy Policies

• AB‐32

– Reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 – By 2020 all emissions from new baseload generation must be at or below that of a natural gas By 2020 all emissions from new baseload generation must be at or below that of a natural gas combined cycle plant.

• Accelerated RPS (from SB 107/ IEPR / EAP / Governor’s Order S‐21‐09)

– By 2010 renewables must make up 20% of California’s electricity generation(~56,000 GWh) – By 2020 renewables must make up 33% of California’s electricity generation(~104 000 GWh) – By 2020 renewables must make up 33% of California s electricity generation( 104,000 GWh)

• State Bioenergy Goal(Executive Order S‐06‐06)

– By 2010 biopower must make up 20% of the RPS – By 2010 20% of biofuels used must be produced in California, by 2020 this increases to 40%

• SB‐1 and California Solar Initiative

– 3,000 MW(~5,000 GWh) of roof‐top PV installed by 2016

• IEPR

– By 2020 all new residential buildings that are constructed must be zero net energy. y g gy

• California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan

– All new commercial construction in California will be zero net energy by 2030 and 50% of existing buildings will be equivalent to zero net energy by 2030. – 40% reduction in energy consumption for existing homes (2008 baseline) by 2020 40% reduction in energy consumption for existing homes (2008 baseline) by 2020

• Governor’s Clean Energy Job Plan

– 12,000 MW of new distributed generation, including Combined Cooling Heat and Power by 2020 – 8,000 MW of new utility scale renewables 7

PIER Structure

d f h d ff ff PIER is made up of three different offices:

– Energy Efficiency Research Office – Energy Generation Research Office – Energy Generation Research Office – Energy Systems Research Office

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Energy Efficiency Research Office Office

• Industrial, Agriculture, and Waste Management

‐ Conduct research, development and demonstration projects to help the industrial, agriculture, and water sectors:

• Reduce energy use and costs and increase energy efficiency
• Meet environmental challenges while maintaining or enhancing energy efficiency
• Enhance ability to cope effectively with energy demand & reliability issues
• Advance electricity technologies that reduce or eliminate consumption of water or other
• Advance electricity technologies that reduce or eliminate consumption of water or other

finite resources or increase use of renewable energy

• Maintain or increase productivity
• Building Energy End‐use Efficiency

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‐ Advance efficient technologies, design tools, and operations ‐ Demonstrate affordable, comfortable, and energy efficient buildings ‐ Improve information resources for sharing results 9

Energy Generation Research Office Office

• Renewable Energy Research and Advanced Generation Research

‐ Demonstrate and reduce the technological barriers to the integration of renewable energy at the utility, community, and building scales. ‐ Increase renewable storage options, increase access to renewable energy, and improve renewable energy forecasting. ‐ Develop advanced generation technologies that focus on increasing reliability, efficiency, ff and affordability, and reducing emissions

• Environmental Research

‐ Develop cost‐effective approaches to evaluating and resolving environmental effects of Develop cost effective approaches to evaluating and resolving environmental effects of energy production, delivery and use in California; and explore how energy technologies can solve/mitigate environmental problems. ‐ Complement national and international research efforts by producing California specific products that also inform policy formulation, in four areas of research: climate change, air quality, aquatic resources, terrestrial resources.

• Transportation Research

‐ Reduce carbon emissions reliance on fossil fuels and the need for vehicle travel ‐ Reduce carbon emissions, reliance on fossil fuels, and the need for vehicle travel ‐ Improve the infrastructure capacity, reliability, and sustainability ‐ Increase the use of alternative and renewable fuels 10

Energy Systems Research Office Office

• Energy Technology Systems Integration

‐ Lower overall system costs, increase system reliability, and provide ratepayer benefits ‐ Enable integration of renewables, distributed generation, demand response, and storage ‐ Improve capacity, utilization, and performance of transmission and distribution systems

• Energy Innovation Small Grants Program

‐ The EISG program’s mission is to assist innovative thinkers by supporting the early development of promising new energy technology concepts and recommending successful

• nes to other funding sources for further development.
• WESTCARB Program

‐ Exploring opportunities in seven western states and Canadian province for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by terrestrial sequestration and carbon dioxide capture and storage and storage. ‐ Results obtained from these efforts will provide the foundation for CCS technology commercialization throughout the United States.

• Division Program Support Unit
• Division Program Support Unit

‐ To Support Crosscutting Activities such as: planning, implementation, benefits analysis, technology transfer, and public outreach. 11

California’s Power Mix 2010

40 00% 45.00% 41.90%

2010 Power Mix in Gigawatt-hours

20 00% 25.00% 30.00% 35.00% 40.00%

Gigawatt hours Coal 22,424 Large Hydro 31,194 l

0 00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 7.70% 13.90% 10.8% 12% 2 40% 4.60% 4 70%

Natural Gas 121,436 Nuclear 40,426 Biomass 6,894

0.00% 2.40% 1.70% 4.70% 0.30%

Geothermal 13,413 Small Hydro 4,995 Solar 959 Solar 959 Wind 13,536 Unspecified 34,859

Sources: http://www.energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/total_system_power.html

Renewables(No large hydro)

39,796

Recent PIER Initiatives

• Renewable Energy Secure Community (RESCO)
• PIER Renewable ARRA Cost Share Projects
• California Renewable Energy Research Center (CREC)
• California Renewable Energy Research Center (CREC)
• Recently completed solicitations

– Utility scale renewable energy – Geothermal solicitation

• Planned solicitations under FY 2010/11 Initiatives

– Renewable Energy Development Deployment and Integration (REDDI) Renewable Energy Development, Deployment and Integration (REDDI) – Advanced Generation/Combined Heat and Power (CHP) 13

RESCO

Renewable Energy Secure Community

• Communities that secure their energy supply (electricity and fuel) through indigenous RE resources
• Use of locally‐available renewable resources to meet 100% of communities’ energy needs
• 11 projects from 2009 solicitation
• Integration projects (8)

‐ Exploratory Stage ‐ Pilot Stage ‐ Implementation Stage

• Upcoming Renewable Energy Development Deployment and Integration (REDDI) solicitation builds off
• Upcoming Renewable Energy Development, Deployment and Integration (REDDI) solicitation builds off

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RESCO Projects

Type of RESCO Integration Recipient Title Type of RESCO Integration Project Amount($) Matched($) 1 The Regents of the University of California, Irvine Piloting the Integration and Utilization of Renewables to Achieve a Flexible and Secure Energy Infrastructure Pilot 948,903 948,903 2 University of California, Merced Piloting a Integrated Renewable Energy Portfolio for the UC Merced Community Pilot 1,000,000 1,062,809 h S C 3 The Sonoma County Water Agency Renewable Energy Secure Sonoma County Pilot 1,000,000 8,403,710 4 Los Angeles Community College District(cancelled) Energy Demand Optimization Program for LA Trade Tech College (LATTC) Building F Implementation 2,000,000 2,751,000 5 University of California, Davis West Village Renewable‐based Energy Secured Community Implementation 1,994,322 1,999,095 6 Alameda County Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, Smartgrid Demonstration with Renewables and Large‐Scale Energy Storage Integration Project at Santa Rita Jail Implementation 1,983,555 2,279,888 7 Local Power, Inc (LPI) San Luis Obispo Renewable Energy Secure Community (SLO‐RESCO) Exploratory 198,167 84,500 8 Redwood Coast Energy Authority Planning for Renewable‐based Energy Security and Prosperity in Humboldt County Exploratory 199,988 86,756 9 Southern California Edison(cancelled) Proposed Deployment Study of a High Penetration of Renewable Energy on Santa Catalina Island Exploratory 1,455,000 1,798,970 El Dorado Irrigation District El Dorado County Water Systems Energy Generation, Storage, Efficiency, 10 g y y gy , g , y, Demand Management and Grid Support Project Exploratory 197,950 73,069 11 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Regents of the University of California, San Diego Collateral/Smart Grid 999,949 1,057,445 12 Makel Engineering Biogas Fueled Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition Power Generation System for Distributed Generation Collateral/Low Emission 300,000 300,848

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13 Summers Consulting Energy, Economic, and Environmental Performance of Dairy Bio‐power and Biomethane Systems Collateral/Dairy 999,925 Total: 12,022,759 19,048,023

Utility Scale Solicitation

Utility Scale Renewable Energy

• Fund initiatives that will help meet RD&D needs related to more rapid and environmentally responsible

deployment of Utility‐Scale Renewable Energy (USRE) to the California electricity grid.

• Solicitation released on Nov. 2, 2010 and NOPA released on March 21, 2011
• Funding 8 projects out of 27 proposals covering 4 topic areas:
• A. Renewable Hybrid Generation and Energy Storage Integration Demonstration
• B. Monitoring and Forecasting Analysis
• C. Thermal Energy Storage Modeling
• D. Environmental Mitigation for Utility‐Scale Solar Energy Technologies

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Utility Scale Solicitation

Recipient Title Research Area Funding($) Matched Funding($) 1

Transpower Inc. Grid‐Saver Fast Energy Storage Demonstration (A)Renewable Hybrid Generation and Energy Storage Integration Demonstration 2,000,000 520,004

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Satcon Technology Corporation Grid‐interactive Photovoltaic System with DC‐link Battery Storage Integration (A)Renewable Hybrid Generation and Energy Storage Integration 1,972,211 1,319,262 p Storage Integration g g Demonstration

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AWS Truepower Application of a Solar Forecasting to Utility Sized PV Plants on a Spectrum of Timescales (B)Monitoring and Forecasting Analysis 442,136 100,744

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Clean Power Research Demonstration and Validation of PV Output (B)Monitoring and 450 000 90 000

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Clean Power Research p Variability Modeling Approach ( ) g Forecasting Analysis 450,000 90,000

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Enernex Corporation Utility Scale Solar Forecasting Analysis and Modeling (B)Monitoring and Forecasting Analysis 450,000 140,217

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Kema Evaluation, Grid Control, and Electricity Market Outcomes (C)Thermal Energy Storage 447 642 173 989

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Solar Thermal Systems ( ) gy g Modeling 447,642 173,989

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Combined Power Cooperative Hyperlight Ultra Low‐Cost Solar Thermal Technology (D)Environmental Mitigation for Utility‐Scale Solar Energy Technologies 1,000,000 40,000

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Project Navigator Ltd. California Land‐fill Solar Project (D)Environmental Mitigation for Utility‐Scale Solar Energy 1,200,000 514,965

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j g Project y gy Technologies Total Amount: 7,961,989 2,899,181

Geothermal Solicitation

Geothermal Energy Solicitation

• Funding opportunity through its Geothermal Resources Development Account (GRDA) Program

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• Overall purpose is to promote the development of geothermal resources and technologies.
• Project categories: Resource Development Projects, Planning Projects, and Mitigation Projects.
• Funding 4 projects out of 13 proposals

Applicant Project Title Proposed Award Match Funding 1 Imageair, Inc. Surface Deformation Baseline in Imperial Valley from Satellite Radar Interferometry(InSAR) $672,234 $732,293 l ll f 2 Layman Energy Associates, Inc Exploratory Well to Confirm Liquid‐Dominated Hydrothermal Resource on Margin of The Geysers Steamfield, Lake County, California $2,377,364 $3,566,046 3 Renovitas LLC Exploration Drilling and Assessment of Wilbur Hot Springs, Colusa County, California $1,492,722 $2,248,400 4 Simbol, Inc. Potassium Production from Geothermal $949,545 $1,393,508

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S bo , c Geot e a brines in California $9 9,5 5 $ ,393,508 Total: $5,491,865 $7,940247

Planned Solicitations

Renewable Energy Development, Deployment and Integration (REDDI)

• Builds from results of the 2009 Renewable Energy Secure Community (RESCO) solicitation
• Integration strategy for one or more renewable energy generation and enabling technology at the

community scale

• Aims to incorporate expanded utility support
• Potential for advancing exploratory projects into the next phase
• Broaden the definition of community from the previous
• Exploratory and Demonstration
• Incorporates feedback from RESCO workshops held in UC Davis
• Includes a breakthrough renewable energy technology development component

Advanced Generation‐ Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

• Develop and integrate emerging multiple DG/CHP technology, including

energy storage, in diversified applications gy g pp

• Advance the science, technology and market availability of grid‐connected

CHP in California

• Focus on hybrid generation and fuel flexible DG/CHP

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PIER Success Stories

The PIER Program has supported renewable energy projects to help overcome barriers that limit the deployment and integration of renewable energy into California’s grid; such as,

• Powerlight Corporation’s photovoltaic (PV) Tracker, a photovoltaic tracker system

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• Advanced Energy Recovery System (AERS) converting onion waste to clean biogas, which

feeds fuel cells

• Tecogen Inc.’s combined heat and power system coupled with inverter‐based technology
• Clean Energy Systems’ turbine using oxy‐combustion technology
• Improved forecasting for variable solar and wind generation projects to optimize

Improved forecasting for variable solar and wind generation projects to optimize development and operation of the transmission grid system.

• UC Davis West Village, a multi‐use zero net energy community using on‐site renewables

and efficiency to optimize distributed energy resources

• Developing utility‐scale solar concentrating systems on closed landfills
• Self‐ballasting, photovoltaic solar racking system
• Biomass to energy projects to create biogas for on‐site electrical production
• Piloting the integration and use of renewables to achieve a flexible and secure energy

infrastructure by integration of PV, electric vehicle charging, and thermal energy storage

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EDTEK, Inc.

Solar Combined Heat and Power System

• A field test of the hybrid (Solar/Natural Gas) combined heat and power system developed in EDTEK’s

previous PIER project. p p j

• Working with San Diego State University to install a 48 kilowatt thermal and 15 kilowatt electrical system

consisting of fifteen 2‐axis tracking parabolic 4‐dish cogeneration systems on their campus.

• This system will then have its operations monitored for a period of twelve months.

Solar concentrator photovoltaic and hot water co‐generation b i i ll d h f f h S S h i b ildi system being installed on the roof of the SDSU physics building. 21

Harpiris Energy

Harpiris Solar Storage Tank

• 125 gallon unpressurized solar storage tank
• ptimized for a drain back solar water heating

system.

• Signed an agreement with UMA Solar to provide

1,000 tanks.

• Demonstrated superior performance when

compared to industry leading pressurized storage tank.

• Introduce product to market with a wholesale

cost of less than $1000. Cut‐away view of the Solar Storage Tank Drainback Solar Water Heating System with solar Storage Tank 22

Greenvolts, Inc.

Two Axis Carousel Solar Tracker

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• Low cost, two axis tracker for concentrated solar power
• California Company
• Building 2 MW facility near Tracy, CA with PG&E
• Nearly $40 million in private equity plus PIER award
• 2005 EISG $95,000 grantee

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Nanosolar

Thin Film Solar Cells

• Thin film solar cells
• California company
• Production facilities in San Jose, CA and Germany

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• $500 million in private funding
• 2002 EISG $75 000 grantee
• 2002 EISG $75,000 grantee

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U.C. Merced

Integrated Renewable Energy Portfolio for the UC Merced Community

• Installed 10 acre, 1 megawatt solar PV farm at U.C. Merced in 2009.
• Solar farm installed owned and operated by Sunpower U C Merced buys the power and owns the green
• Solar farm installed, owned, and operated by Sunpower. U.C. Merced buys the power and owns the green

credits

• Forecasting Algorithms developed to forecast the energy production of the solar farm from 15 minutes to

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RESCO Project: UC Davis West Village

Project Objective: Provide compact, mixed‐use housing for:

• ~2,000 students
• 340 homes
• An education center
• A ten‐acre recreation field complex
• A village square with neighborhood‐serving retail uses.

Planned technologies include:

• Energy efficiency (passive & active)
• Energy efficiency (passive & active)
• Demand response
• Distributed Solar, Photovoltaic
• Distributed Solar Thermal
• Biogas digester
• Fuel Cells
• Advanced energy storage
• Smart Grid technologies
• Bio‐methane upgrade system
• Bio‐fuels for transportation

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Combined Power Cooperative

Hyperlight Ultra Low‐Cost Solar Thermal Technology

• Combined Power Cooperative will demonstrate two utility scale Hyperlight solar thermal units at Santee

and Brawley, California. and Brawley, California.

• The Hyperlight system is a low‐cost Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR). CLFRs use about 60% of the

land that power tower and parabolic trough technologies do.

• The advantage the Hyperlight has over other CLFRs is that its reflector field is made of plastic and metallic

polymer instead of metal and glass. This greatly lowers the cost of the reflector field which is typically 45%

• f the total initial cost.
• The goals of this demonstration are to improve the average thermal efficiency from 17% to 30%, reduce

evaporation loss of cooling water from 30% to 10%, and develop a model of predict the amount of cooling done by an airblower. 27

AWS Truepower

Application of a Solar Forecasting to Utility Sized PV Plants on a Spectrum of Timescales

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• AWS Truepower will use sky imagery and satellite imagery vector analysis and numerical weather

prediction to produce solar power production forecasts.

• Three time scales: minute to minute, 1 to 6 hours ahead, and next day to two days ahead.
• Forecasts will be tested at the Sempra’s Copper Mountain PV solar plant near Henderson, Nevada for the

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Thank You !

Prab Sethi C lif i E C i i California Energy Commission

E‐mail: psethi@energy.state.ca.us Website: www energy ca gov Website: www.energy.ca.gov PIER Funding Opportunities: http://www.energy.ca.gov/research/funding.html

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