3360 Energy Resource Conservation/Dvlmt Comm
Program Descriptions

30 - DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

The Development Program focuses on transportation and alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. The mission is to ensure that adequate and reliable transportation energy is provided to the California transportation sector while balancing economic, public health, safety, and environmental consequences. Additionally, the program also conducts research, development, demonstration, commercialization, and deployment activities on energy efficiency, renewable and advanced energy technologies, and alternative and renewable fuel and advanced vehicle technologies to ensure future energy supplies are cost effective, secure, and reliable; enhance environmental quality; and promote state and local economic development. The program provides technical assistance, financial assistance, direct technology research and demonstration, technology forecasting, technology analysis and evaluation, and information transfer.

30.20 - Transportation Technology and Fuels

The Transportation Technology and Fuels program provides financial incentives to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. The program goal is the development and deployment of low-carbon alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies in the marketplace, without adopting any one preferred fuel or technology. The program provides analyses and recommendations to guide state energy policy and legislation to achieve climate change objectives, reduce petroleum consumption, and promote economic development. The program also monitors, analyzes, and reports on transportation fuel supply and production, fuel infrastructure issues, transportation fuel demand trends, and responds to energy and fuel shortages and emergencies. The program assists local and regional agencies with reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions through land use planning and community design; provides support to border energy commitments; and facilitates international trade missions and delegation visits

30.30 - Research and Development

The Research and Development program provides analysis and investment recommendations for research, demonstration, and development innovations addressing current and emerging energy system requirements. The program supports projects that complement other private or public sector investments. The program goal is to develop, and help bring to market, energy solutions providing increased environmental benefits, greater system reliability, and lower energy costs. Benefits are provided to Californians through investments in energy efficiency and demand response, advanced generation, energy storage, strategies to reduce or mitigate energy-related environmental impact, transportation technologies, and energy transmission and distribution system improvements.

30.40 - Renewable Energy

The Renewable Energy program fosters growth of the renewable energy market by providing rebates to purchasers of renewable products, tracking and verifying renewable energy transactions, and enforcing compliance with state renewable energy mandates.