The net capacity needed to meet the growth in demand is expected to increase by 3,400 megawatts by year 2003. (See line item 13 on Table—Item 2.1 Projected Capacity and Demand—Summer of the EIA–411 report.) The addition of the 100 MW Pickwick Power plant is needed by TVA to meet this projected regional power demand for baseload capacity. Because Energy Vision 2020 identified and evaluated alternative supply-side and demand-side energy resources and technologies for meeting peak and baseload capacity needs, these alternatives would not be re-evaluated in this EIS. Market power purchases was one supply-side option identified in the EIS as necessary for meeting TVA’s baseload and peaking capacity needs.
Institutions of Higher Education. This FOA will support the Co‐Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co‐Optima) initiative, a collaborative initiative being pursued by BETO and VTO to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high‐performance fuels for use in high‐efficiency, low‐ emission engines. This first‐of‐its‐kind effort brings together multiple DOE offices, national laboratories, and industry stakeholders to simultaneously conduct tandem fuel and engine R&D and deployment assessment in order to maximize energy savings and on‐road vehicle performance, while dramatically reducing transportation‐related petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2016, BETO and VTO jointly funded a consortium of nine DOE national laboratories to begin an initial three‐year project in support of the Co‐Optima initiative. The National Laboratory Project includes two research thrusts: Thrust I—Improve near‐term conventional spark ignition engine efficiency Thrust II—Enable full operability advance compression ignition engines The research cycle for each thrust includes identifying fuel candidates, understanding their characteristics and combustion performance, and determining market transformation requirements such as cost, GHG reduction, feedstock requirements, scalability, and infrastructure compatibility, while providing feedback to stakeholders and future collaborators.