ET24SWE0050 - Portfolio Enhancements TPM

The Program Team has established a robust Technology Priority Map (TPM) development process that documents the impact potential, research needs, and market readiness across each end-use technology area. This project is a revised TPM that will address the portfolio issues that are not specific to an end-use technology but rather to the portfolio as a whole. In outreach to EE portfolio stakeholders and within our own research, CalNEXT knows of important barriers to incorporating emerging technologies into the EE portfolio that are not based in a particular technology. This TPM will communicate these barriers to the larger community of EE stakeholders and provide actionable guidance on the type of research that CalNEXT is looking to fund to address them. 

The project team would like to emphasize that they hold the TAC to ensure what's included in the TPM is appropriate and within scope. This TPM will study issues that cut across end-uses but impact the offerings in the EE Portfolio, including deemed, custom and NMEC measures, measure rules and requirements, databases, tools and calculators. The process of having a TAC involved as part of the development. The TAC member, provided the project team will do the due diligence and select TAC members that are familiar with or even involved in these “formal forums”, such that the topics the Portfolio Enhancements TPM covers and the resulting research outcomes will complement, but not overlap with, the work from other formal forums. The project team's work with CalMTA will also be of use here, gathering their feedback on each TPM domain as well as working closely on the Focused Pilot processes.

This TPM will include the formation of a new TPM Subject Matter Expert (SME) Team made up of Technical SMEs from the project team of Energy Solutions, VEIC, TRC, AESC, and UC Davis. The SME team will also convene an external TPM advisory committee which will include representations from the CA IOU PAs as well as from emerging technology interests from the State of California (e.g., CPUC and CEC), and national interests (such as DOE, EPA, and the National Laboratories). The process will also include the review of policies that impact equity standards toward disadvantaged communities (DAC) and hard-to-reach communities (HTR), with input and review assistance from the Ortiz Group. This Portfolio Enhancements TPM process will commence in Q3 2024, and the 12-week process is scheduled to conclude in Q4 2024.