ENV 2011 & 2012 Portfolio Key Supplemental Projects

ENV 2011 & 2012 Portfolio Key Supplemental Projects

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Key Supplemental ProjectsGlobal Climate


Regional Deployment and Implications of Renewables

Objectives and Scope• Build upon EPRI data and models to

examine the economic potential of wind, solar, biomass, and other renewables on a state-by-state or regional basis

• Understand regional issues for tying in these resources, and examine interactions with electricity generation, energy storage, and demand management under a variety of policy scenarios

Value

• Inform corporate strategies as well as public policy and regulatory discussions

Details and Contact• Price: $50,000• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationVictor Niemeyer• [email protected], (650) 855-2262SPN Number: 1023365

Improved understanding of system-wide effects of renewable generationImproved understanding of system-wide effects of renewable generation

Climate


Objectives and Scope• Provide insight into the potential value of

generation asset investments in the face of uncertainties over energy and environmental policies, renewables penetration, and future electricity market structures

• Evaluate retirement, retrofit, and new generation investments in terms of how robust these investments may be under a wide range of plausible futures

Value• Improved basis for making generation

asset management decisions

Details and Contact• Price: $100,000• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationVictor Niemeyer• [email protected], (650) 855-2262SPN Number: 1023364

Quantify value of generation asset decisions under multiple uncertaintiesQuantify value of generation asset decisions under multiple uncertainties

Climate

Environmental Compliance Strategy Support


Development of New GHG Offsets

Objectives and Scope• Reduce electric company costs to manage

vegetation on transmission rights-of-way.• Demonstrate how to create financial value by

implementing enhanced Integrated Vegetation Management on transmission rights-of-way.

• Increase the suite of options available to electric companies to offset their GHG emissions and comply with potential future requirements to reduce company GHG emissions.

• Reduce the potential costs to comply with future regulations that may require electric companies to reduce their GHG emissions.

Value• Reduce cost to manage ROW vegetation;• Create valuable GHG emissions offsets;• Enhance wildlife habitat; and,• Maintain critical system reliability.

Details and Contact• Price: $50,000/yr• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationAdam Diamant• [email protected], (510) 260-9105SPN Number: 1023367

Developing New GHG Emission Offsets and Reducing Costs of ROW Vegetation Management

Developing New GHG Emission Offsets and Reducing Costs of ROW Vegetation Management

By implementing Integrated Vegetation

Management on transmission

system rights-of- way, electric companies

potentially can reduce vegetation

management costs, create valuable GHG emissions

offsets and enhance wildlife

habitat.

Climate


Key Supplemental ProjectsAir Quality


Risk Evaluation of Trace Metals for Air,Water and Solid Wastes

Objectives and Scope• Target critical data gaps for risk assessments

and regulatory decision-making• Inform the derivation of health reference

values for trace metals• Provide transparent modeling and data

integration to identify biologically supported health reference values

Value• Achieves viable environmental compliance

while protecting public health • Provides alternatives to default regulatory

strategies• Maximizes scientific basis for development of

media-specific guidelines, standards, permitting and compliance

Details and Contact• Price: $50K/yr for 3 years ($150K)

• Total funding needed: $2.0M

• Qualifies for Tailored Collaboration

Sharan Campleman• [email protected],(650) 855-2331SPN Number:1023333

Minimizes health and regulatory risk related to trace metalsMinimizes health and regulatory risk related to trace metals

AirQuality


Chemistry and Health Effects of Carbonaceous Material in the Atmosphere

Objectives and Scope• Characterize ambient organics to identify their

sources• Compare measurement methods for carbon• Define fractions and compounds of most health

relevance • Evaluate ability of particulate fractions to deliver

organic materials to the lung• Undertake additional epidemiological analyses

Value• Better understanding of chemistry and health

effects of carbonaceous material increases the possibility of a separate component-based standard for PM

• Extent to which carbonaceous materials are reduced affects the need to reduce other fractions of PM, such as sulfate or nitrate to meet mass-based PM standards

Details and Contact• Price: $50K/yr for 3 years



Annette Rohr

• [email protected], 425.298.4374

SPN Number: 1023363

Inform development of sound science-based air quality regulationsInform development of sound science-based air quality regulations

AirQuality


Health Effects of Air Pollution and ParticulateMatter Components

Objectives and Scope• Determine relationships between PM

components and health in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Dallas

• Epidemiological analyses of mortality and morbidity

Value• Generate needed information and data for

consideration of component-specific regulatory approach

• Enhance data credibility through multi-city analysis

• Improved decision-making about the need to reduce emissions from power plants compared to other sources




Ronald Wyzga

• [email protected], 650-855-2132

SPN Number: 1023362

Multi-city health analyses provides input into potential component-based standardMulti-city health analyses provides input into potential component-based standard

AirQuality


Acidification and Nutrient Enrichment

Objectives and Scope• Development of inexpensive dry deposition

measurement methods• Collection of data in various aquatic

systems in the United States • Improvement of simple and complex

aquatic models

Value• Results of the proposed research are

expected to affect the implementation of any final proposed standard based on the current methodology being used by EPA, as it will result in better data to ground-truth assumptions and parameter values as well as test the adequacy of the models employed

Details and Contact• Price: $75K/yr < 5000 MW coal for 3

years ($225K); $150K/yr > 5000 MW coal ($450K) for 3 years



Eladio Knipping

• [email protected], (202) 293-6343

SPN Number: 1023361

Informs deposition-based regulations and standardsInforms deposition-based regulations and standards

AirQuality


Objectives and Scope• Improve existing dispersion models for both

near-source and long-range application• Implement and evaluate new

methodologies for air dispersion model applications for new short-term NO2 and SO2 standards

• Ensure a higher degree of confidence in use of dispersion models

Value• Includes latest science in puff and

dispersion models in existing EPA models• Ensure that the best-available science is

used in air quality management including permitting applications

Details and Contact• Price: $40K/yr

• Total funding needed: $280K


Eladio Knipping


SPN Number: 1023116

Tests new methodologies for air dispersion model applicationsTests new methodologies for air dispersion model applications

AirQualityRefining Air Dispersion Models I: Addressing

Challenges with Existing Models and Methods


Key Supplemental ProjectsWater & Ecosystems


§316(b) Fish Protection Compliance Strategies

Objectives and Scope• Assess impingement mortality

compliance financial risk exposure with– Modified traveling screen cost – Use of intake velocity <0.5

feet/second• Provide performance study information

Value• Information to aid budgeting for

proposed §316(b) requirements by considering cost and compliance risk

• Information required on cooling water intake structure performance

Details and Contact• Price: $20,000/yr for 2 years

($40,000) • Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationDave Bailey• [email protected], (571) 226-0614SPN Number: 1023335

Cost Effective Compliance Planning for 316(b)Cost Effective Compliance Planning for 316(b)

Water & Ecosystems


Assessment of Water Availability Risk to Power Generation

Objectives and Scope• Select geographical area of interest• Apply EPRI’s innovative Water Prism• Assess freshwater constraints on current

and planned generation• Evaluate alternative water saving strategies

and technologies across all water using sectors

Value• Risk assessment of water shortages• Cost efficient strategies to reduce water

shortage risks• Better understanding of water saving

technologies within all water using sectors• Water resource sustainable growth plans

Details and Contact• Price: $100K/yr for 2 years ($200K)• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationRobert Goldstein• [email protected], (855) 650-2154SPN Number: 1023579

Insightful decision support analyses for sustainable water useInsightful decision support analyses for sustainable water use

Water & Ecosystems


Biotechnological Approaches to Remove Boron from Wastewater

Objectives and Scope• Create a cost effective year round

treatment system using biological technologies

• Use a dual approach for wastewater treatment by developing wetland plants and bacterial/algal bioreactors

Value• Reduce regulatory exposure

• Green technology

• Savings of approx. $1M per year over existing resin-based treatment

Details and Contact• Price: $40,000/yr for 2 years• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationJohn W. Goodrich-Mahoney• [email protected], 202-293-7516SPN Number: 1023578

Innovative Biological Approaches for Wastewater TreatmentInnovative Biological Approaches for Wastewater Treatment

Water & Ecosystems


Fish Friendly Turbine Demonstration Project

Objectives and Scope• Deploy and test a ‘fish-friendly’ hydropower

turbine– Alden turbine now ready for field testing– Site selected, installation planning

underway• Preliminary cost and supply schedule

available – turbine’s performance has been enhanced

Value• Support #1 R&D priority of hydropower

industry– Improve environmental performance of

hydropower operations • Expand options for carbon-free electric

power generation

Details and Contact• Price: $50,000/yr for 3 years• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationDoug Dixon• [email protected], (804) 642-1025SPN Number: 1023336

Innovative technology for hydropower developmentInnovative technology for hydropower development

Water & Ecosystems


Water Quality Trading: Pilot Trades for Compliance with Nutrient Criteria and Greenhouse Gas Targets

Objectives and Scope• Execution of Pilot Trades• Testing of credit stacking GHG and water

quality credits• Validate business case for trading• Watershed modeling simulations

Value• Shape how trading programs will function

across the country• Quantification of broader ecosystem

benefits from trading• Verify future of trading as a compliance tool

for power companies

Details and Contact• Price: $200,000• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationJessica Fox• [email protected], (650) 855-2138SPN Number: 1022644

Cost-Effective and Ecologically Beneficial ComplianceCost-Effective and Ecologically Beneficial Compliance

Water & Ecosystems


Key Supplemental ProjectsRenewables


Managing Species Issues for Renewables

Objectives and Scope• Eagle risk assessment and population

modeling for wind development and siting

• Analysis of habitat viability

• Tailored modeling for future population assessments

Value• Understanding of wind energy impacts

on eagles provide greater insight into required mitigation efforts

• Add certainty to long-term operations and provide "adaptive mitigation" strategies



Adam Shor• [email protected], (650) 855-8782

SPN Number: 1023378

Mitigation strategies for eagle interactions with wind facilitiesMitigation strategies for eagle interactions with wind facilities

Renewables


Key Supplemental ProjectsLand & Groundwater


Pond Closures Research

Objectives and Scope• Development/documentation of cost-

effective and environmentally protective closure in compliance with new CCP rules

– Pore-water pressures, stability– Alternative caps– Building on closed ponds– Groundwater monitoring, remediation

• Source of information exchange on practical and innovative pond closures

Value• At-risk pond closures could exceed $5

billion industry-wide • Corrective action costs could significantly

increase the total pond closure costs• Accelerated closures may increase risk of

instability

Details and Contact• Price: Tiered Coal MWe;

<5000MW $25K/yr for 2 years ($50K); >5000MW $50K/yr for 2 years ($100K)

• Qualifies for Tailored CollaborationKen Ladwig• [email protected], (262) 754-2744SPN Number: 1023334

Innovative and cost-effective pond closure methodsInnovative and cost-effective pond closure methods

Land & Groundwater


Key Supplemental ProjectsOccupational Health & Safety


Occupational Exposure to Physical Stressors: Intervention and Prevention

Objectives and Scope• Evaluate use of novel in-ear dosimeter with

built-in feedback system

• Develop intervention strategies for hearing loss prevention

• Examine relationship between in-ear/ambient noise levels and injury

Value• Reduce hearing loss and worker

compensation costs

• Assess leading indicator of noise-induced hearing loss and workplace injuries

• Incorporates in-ear dosimeter as part of PPE training

Details and Contact• Price: $50K per company


Gabor Mezei


SPN Number: 1023338

Reduction of noise-induced hearing loss and injuriesReduction of noise-induced hearing loss and injuries

Health & Safety


Key Supplemental ProjectsT&D Environmental Issues


Radio Frequency Characterizationand Health Studies

Objectives and Scope• Address health and safety concerns related

to RF exposures from emerging utility infrastructure– Advanced Metering Infrastructure– Smart Meters– Other wireless technologies

• Characterize ambient and personal RF exposure levels

Value• Facilitate timely deployment of smart grid

technologies• Address scientific uncertainty in RF health

research• Inform public discourse on RF-enabled

technologies and potential health effects

Details and Contact• Price: $150K/yr for 3 years


Gabor Mezei


SPN Number: 1023337

Establish presence and leadership in RF health scienceEstablish presence and leadership in RF health science

T&D Enviro Issues


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ENV 2011 & 2012 Portfolio Key Supplemental Projects