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GFO-20-503 – Strategic Pathways and Analytics for Tactical Decommissioning of Portions of Natural Gas Infrastructure

CA Energy Commission · 4663

Eligibility details

This solicitation is open to all public and private entities.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required. Match funding is not required for this solicitation. However, applications that include match funding will receive additional points during the scoring phase.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

The purpose of this solicitation is to develop multi-disciplinary, strategic approaches for stakeholders and decision makers to determine where trimming portions of natural gas infrastructure is plausible, economically viable, and customer-supported with clearly identifiable rate-payer benefits. The result of the research would be a set of guidelines and criteria that enable decision makers to easily identify potential project sites for natural gas system decommissioning, quantify the avoided natural gas infrastructure costs associated with all-electric service, assess costs of electric system upgrades and building electrification, and evaluate expected cost savings and customer acceptance. The awardees from this solicitation will propose at least three pilot projects where the approaches can be implemented and verified in the near-term or within five years. Recipients of funding for this solicitation may be eligible to compete for a second phase of funding which will support the proposed pilots.

Funding geography: Demonstration projects in this solicitation must be located in the service territory of a California natural gas Investor Owned Utility (NG IOU), which includes Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and Southern California Gas Company. All projects in this solicitation must benefit natural gas IOU ratepayers.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.