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From 2002 to 2006, PIER provided $2.32 million to support a project in Yolo County to design, develop, and demonstrate two types of bioreactors capable of increasing landfill gas production, accelerating the biodegradation process, and decreasing landfill generation lifecycle costs.
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Public
Interest Energy Research Program
Administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC), an
LMOP State Partner, the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER)
Program supports public interest energy research and development that will
help improve the quality of life in California by delivering environmentally
safe, affordable, and reliable energy services and products
to the marketplace. The PIER Program awards up to $62 million annually
and brings new energy services and products to the marketplace to create
statewide environmental and economic benefits. Proposers need not be California
companies but need to propose research whose results exceed best practice
or product improvement. There is no minimum or maximum requirement for
the amount of funding requested, but some level of match funding is requested.
The maximum amount of funding for a single proposal has been $500,000.
PIER funding efforts focus on the following R&D program areas:
- Renewable Energy Technologies (including landfill gas)
- Buildings End-Use Energy Efficiency
- Climate Change Program
- Energy Innovations Small Grant Program
- Energy-Related Environmental Research
- Energy Systems Integration
- Environmentally-Preferred Advanced Generation
- Industrial/Agricultural/Water End-Use Energy Efficiency
- Natural Gas Research
- Transportation Research
In the landfill gas area, PIER is interested in both near-term and longer
term research, development, and demonstration projects. In
the near term, PIER is interested in development of medium and large scale
systems to produce energy from landfills that are currently flaring or
venting landfill gas using existing commercial technologies. The program
is also seeking to support R&D that improves the production rate of
landfill gas, reduces the total cost or increases the efficiency of the
landfill gas energy systems, or reduces the environmental impact of these
projects. To accomplish these objectives, the PIER renewables group is
working collaboratively with private industry, the national laboratories,
not-for-profit research entities, and academic institutions.
From 2001 to 2004, PIER provided $1.15 million to support an accelerated
anaerobic composting project (full-scale bioreactor) designed to accelerate
waste decomposition and leachate treatment for maximum methane-to-energy
generation at the Yolo County Landfill. From 2002 to 2006, PIER provided
$2.32 million to support a project in Yolo County to design, develop,
and demonstrate two types of bioreactors capable of increasing landfill
gas production, accelerating the biodegradation process, and decreasing
landfill generation lifecycle costs. One bioreactor was designed to use
municipal solid waste (MSW) or source-separated organic waste materials;
the other was designed to use MSW or source-separated organic waste materials
along with animal waste.
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