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Request for Proposals
Starting date: 5/24/04
Closing date: 7/26/04 - CLOSED
On behalf of the California Energy Commission's (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research Environmental Area (PIEREA), the University of California, Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) is requesting proposals in accordance with the goals of the PIEREA Avian–Energy System Mitigation Program. Funding is available for research projects that address the development and application of methods and technologies for reducing avian/bat fatalities caused by electrocution and collisions with power structures.
The overall goals of the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) regarding this program as defined in California State Interagency Agreement 500-01-032, as amended are:
- Improve the energy cost/value of California's electricity by reducing costs associated with negative avian/bat interactions with utility structures such as power outages, delayed developments, and ineffective retrofitting.
- Improve the environmental cost/risk of California's electricity production by providing effective tools and solutions to reduce avian/bat fatalities related to interactions with utility structures, such as retrofitting transmission systems and wind turbines with bird- and bat-friendly designs and treatments, and by supporting trends to re-power wind turbine developments in a manner that reduces bird/bat fatalities.
- Improve the reliability, quality, and sufficiency of California's electricity by reducing the number of avian-caused power outages.
- Provide greater choices for California consumers by helping to resolve the issue of bird - wind turbine collisions, in hopes of lifting the current moratorium on the increase of wind generating capacity at some California wind farms, and by supporting the future development of wind energy production in a manner that is not in violation of state and federal laws.
Research Categories
- Risk Assessment Research: develop and implement methodologies and tools to assess and locate high electrocution and collision risk energy-related system structures and to determine the extent of negative avian/bat interactions in California.
- Risk Reduction Research: develop and implement standards, guidelines, tools and procedures to reduce the extent of negative avian/bat interactions with energy-related systems.
- Compliance Monitoring: develop and implement procedures, guidelines, and standards to audit mitigation efforts' effectiveness at adequately reducing negative avian/bat interactions with energy-related systems.
- Technology Transfer: develop media needed by agencies, researchers, and industry to access and share information intended to promote and improve bird-safe practices in regard to transmission system upgrade, maintenance, and design.
Approximately $1,000,000 will be awarded in response to proposals. Review of projects will begin 07/26/04 and end 10/01/04. Awards will be announced by 10/04/04. Interested researchers may direct their technical and contracting questions to walton@ucsc.edu
Application materials can be obtained at: www.energy.ca.gov/contracts
Email for electronic submission (PREFERRED)
Address for hardcopy submission (original plus 6 copies):*
Attn: Brian James Walton/CEC
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
Long Marine Lab
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA. 95060
Applicant Notification List
We recommend that all individuals or organizations that intend to submit a proposal to the current solicitation register their email address with SCPBRG to ensure notification of any late changes to the application process. To register, send an email to Brian Walton with the words "CEC Applicant" in the subject line and request your email to be added to the "Applicant Notification List". Contact information will only be retained for the current solicitation.
*For hardcopy submission, postmark must be five working days prior to submission deadline date.
