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GFO-24-501 – Paving the Way for California’s Gas Transition

CA Energy Commission · 99756

Eligibility details

This solicitation is open to all public and private entities. All projects in this solicitation must benefit Gas IOU ratepayers.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: 5%. Match funding is required in the amount of at least 5% of the requested project funds.

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

About this opportunity

The State of California aims to greatly decrease reliance on fossil gas (commonly known to consumers as natural gas) over the next few decades, including by electrifying current gas end uses, decommissioning gas system infrastructure, reducing gas-fired power generation, and potentially by integrating lower-carbon gases into the utility gas system or deploying other alternatives to fossil gas. The focus of this solicitation is understanding and supporting both the prerequisites to and impacts of conversion from gas end uses in the residential and commercial sectors, considered in the context of a transition from fossil gas use overall. Over 11 million homes and commercial buildings in California use gas, and electrification of gas end uses in these buildings is technically feasible. In many cases, however, electrification may not be practical or desirable from logistical, affordability, financial, equity, functional, energy system planning, or other perspectives. Additionally, there are hurdles to achieving primarily policy-driven, and ideally coordinated, change in a domain dominated by private, personal choices (Blazquez et al. 2020).

Funding geography: This solicitation is open to all public and private entities. All projects in this solicitation must benefit Gas IOU ratepayers.

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