The CEC has recently opened up several new opportunities to pursue grant funding within the emerging technology and clean energy sectors. They include:
GFO-17-302, Demonstrate Business Case for Advanced Microgrids in Support of California's Energy and GHG Policies - The purpose of this solicitation is to fund technology demonstration and deployment (TD&D) projects that meet S14 Strategic Objective - Take Microgrids to the Next Level: Maximize the Value to Customers as defined in the 2015-2017 Triennial Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Investment Plan. More details available at: http://www.energy.ca.gov/contracts/epic.html#GFO-17-302
GFO-17-501, Improving Natural Gas Energy Efficiency, Waste Heat-to-Power, and Near-Zero Emission Distributed Generation Systems - The purpose of this solicitation is to fund industrial energy efficiency and renewable energy and advanced generation research projects that focus on reducing natural gas use. More details available at: http://www.energy.ca.gov/contracts/pier.html#GFO-17-501
GFO-17-301, Increasing Adoption of Emerging Clean Energy Technologies through Procurement - The purpose of this solicitation is to develop and scale-up new tools and resources to increase customer procurement of distributed energy resources (DER), including energy efficiency, renewable distributed generation, and distributed storage. More details available at: http://www.energy.ca.gov/contracts/epic.html#GFO-17-301
There are pre-application workshops offered for some of these grants over the coming days and application deadlines for all three are in October.