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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION (RD&D)

Working to reduce the environmental impact for all of us.

SoCalGas® is actively working towards the goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations and delivery of energy by 2045. Innovation and the rapid development of new technologies are vital to our success. Our Research, Development, & Demonstration (RD&D) Program plays a key role in this effort by developing and demonstrating transformational products and technologies that promote decarbonization across the natural gas value chain and a diversified portfolio of clean energy sources, distributed networks, tools, and applications.

RD&D Annual Report

The RD&D Program seeks to advance and champion technologies that support wide spread access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy for all Californians.

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Our Upcoming Webinar

Company-Specific Emission Factors for Customer Meters

SoCalGas® and Element Resources invite you to learn about company-specific leak-based natural gas emission factors (EFs) for distribution customer meter facilities. This webinar will feature RD&D supported research about new EFs that are more robust and comprehensive than developed under prior industry studies, with greater precision and statistical confidence. The approach developed by the SoCalGas research team is also structured to take advantage of historic system data for trend analysis from past benchmark-year baselines. SoCalGas is working toward approval to use these EFs in their state-mandated annual emissions reports stemming from senate bill SB-1371. SoCalGas has also made the research reports publicly available along with a paper published in Environmental Science and Technology. 

Speakers: 
Daniel Ersoy, Element Resources
Daniel Ersoy is the Founder and Principal Engineer of Element Resources which provides technical support and over 30 years of comprehensive professional experience in: environmental emissions research; risk and integrity management; advanced statistical and probabilistic analysis and modeling; and engineering, safety, and operations research and data analysis

Dan's past operational and research leadership roles include being part of: Gas Technology Institute's - Energy Delivery and Integrity Management Sector; Univ. of Illinois' – Materials Engineering Group; Argonne National Lab's - Energy Technology Division, and the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet - Nimitz Battle Group and Western Pacific Tactical Services Command. Dan has Engineering degrees in: Metallurgy; Materials Engineering and Corrosion; and Nuclear Operations. Dan holds numerous patents, dozens of technical publications, and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  
 

Date: May 23, 2024
Time: 10am – 11am PDT

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RD&D 2022 Annual Report Spotlights

  • RDD-annual-report-04California Port deploys hydrogen fuel cell trucks for zero-emission cargo handling

    GTI Energy leads demonstration of hydrogen fuel cell yard tractors for emissions reductions at the Port of Los Angeles. The project’s goal was to develop and demonstrate two zero-emission hybrid hydrogen fuel cell yard trucks at port terminals operated by TraPac at the Port of Los Angeles. Based on this project’s success, TraPac has begun exploring how to transition all of its cargo handling equipment to zero emission. This project made significant progress in reducing some of the stigma associated with hydrogen and is an important step forward in developing a thriving hydrogen market in Southern California.

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    RDD-annual-report-06_0New insights are created by breaking down industrial data silos with digitization

    Energy technology company, METRON, has created an innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) product and set of strategies to reduce energy consumption, help lower utility bills, and shrink carbon footprints. This technology seeks to tear down data silos in industrial facilities, enabling users to understand and analyze data in real time and gain actionable insights at the machine or asset level. Upon installation of the sensors, METRON deployed its software ecosystem and professional services to drive significant energy use cost savings and emission reductions. The success of the project was a direct result of the positive collaboration among METRON, The Gill Corporation, and SoCalGas. 

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Public Workshop Notice

The Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) hosted a public workshop presenting the 2022 Research, Development & Demonstration (RD&D) program results and review 2023 RD&D activities. It is also an opportunity to obtain input from stakeholders, including the 

  • California Energy Commission
  • GTI Energy
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Other organizations engaged in gas research and development regarding intended RD&D spending for the 2024 calendar year

The workshop was ordered by the October 1, 2019 Decision Addressing the Test Year 2019 General Rate Cases of San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company (D.19.09-051 at pp. 378-379). 

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Press Releases

SoCalGas Joins Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Electrochaea to Help Advance Gas Infrastructure Decarbonization

March 19, 2024

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SoCalGas and Bloom Energy Powering Caltech with Innovative Campus Hydrogen Project

Dec 14, 2023

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Innovative Technology That Uses Solar Energy to Convert 100% Renewable Biogas to Hydrogen and Graphitic Carbon on Display During the United Nations' COP 28 Meeting in Dubai

Nov 30, 2023

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