Long Term Role “Strategic Comparison of Builds on recent and ongoing and Impact of the Cost-Effectiveness of research into methane leak detection, Natural Gas in Sensor Systems for taking tools from controlled a Methane Emission environments into real-world settings Detection and to demonstrate their Context: Measurement,” Energy-Related $2,700,000 Field test innovative, low-cost Environmental technologies to detect and quantify Research emissions from super-emitters. Target a region (e.g., Bakersfield) that includes representative natural gas production areas and distribution/end use areas. Measure methane emissions over a sufficient period of time to determine temporal variation in flow rates to inform the state GHG inventory. Long Term Role “Water Heating in Develop and demonstrate and Impact of Existing Buildings,” effective residential hot water Natural Gas in $910,000 distribution retrofits that can reduce a water and natural gas use by at least 20%. Context: Improve older, existing, inefficient Energy residential systems, including other improvements such as heat recovery Efficiency Research and use of recycled water. The proposed supplemental plan reflects high-priority climate and energy state policy directives and the direction in Resolution G-3519. The supplementary plan essentially directs immediate funding to three project areas: one supporting natural gas inspection tools and technologies, one that advances current methane emission assessment work, and one focusing on the relatively narrow but impactful area of residential hot water heating. We view the proposed research to address these knowledge and innovation gaps as highly important; each project is timely and relevant to key ongoing work at the
Long Term Role and Impact of Natural Gas in a Context: Energy-Related Environmental Research “Strategic Comparison of the Cost-Effectiveness of Sensor Systems for Methane Emission Detection and Measurement,” $2,700,000 Builds on recent and ongoing research into methane leak detection, taking tools from controlled environments into real-world settings to demonstrate their Field test innovative, low-cost technologies to detect and quantify emissions from super-emitters. Target a region (e.g., Bakersfield) that includes representative natural gas production areas and distribution/end use areas. Measure methane emissions over a sufficient period of time to determine temporal variation in flow rates to inform the state GHG inventory. Long Term Role and Impact of Natural Gas in a Context: Energy Efficiency Research “Water Heating in Existing Buildings,” $910,000 Develop and demonstrate residential hot water distribution retrofits that can reduce water and natural gas use by at least 20%. Improve older, existing, inefficient residential systems, including other improvements such as heat recovery and use of recycled water. The proposed supplemental plan reflects high-priority climate and energy state policy directives and the direction in Resolution G-3519. The supplementary plan essentially directs immediate funding to three project areas: one supporting natural gas inspection tools and technologies, one that advances current methane emission assessment work, and one focusing on the relatively narrow but impactful area of residential hot water heating. We view the proposed research to address these knowledge and innovation gaps as highly important; each project is timely and relevant to key ongoing work at the effective
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