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nLl <br />CITY" OF <br />IVEI, IDE <br />Cite I Arts & Innoz ation <br />City Council Memorandum <br />TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL <br />FROM: PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT <br />DATE: DECEMBER 18, 2012 <br />ITEM NO: 36 <br />WARDS: ALL <br />SUBJECT: THE ENERGY INNOVATIONS GRANT PROGRAM CONTRACT BETWEEN <br />RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, <br />RIVERSIDE <br />ISSUE <br />The issue for City Council consideration is approval of a non - funded extension to the Energy <br />Innovations Grant (EIG) Program contract between Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) and the <br />University of California, Riverside (UCR) for their project on "Miniaturized, Efficient and Low -Cost <br />Energy Storage Devices ". <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />That the City Council approve a non - funded extension to the Energy Innovations Grant Program <br />contract between Riverside Public Utilities and the University of California, Riverside. <br />BOARD RECOMMENDATION <br />This item was unanimously approved by the Board of Public Utilities on November 16, 2012. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The EIG Program is an RPU Public Benefits Program which was developed for the funding of <br />research, development, and demonstration programs for the public interest to advance science or <br />technology in electric related projects in the institutions of higher education within the City of <br />Riverside. Participation in the EIG Program is restricted to public or private post- secondary <br />institutions whose primary activities fall within the City limits. The grant funds must comply with <br />the relevant portions of California Public Utilities Code (PUC) Section 385 related to the use of <br />Public Benefits Funds. <br />The UCR was awarded grant funding on August 9, 2011, for its proposal submitted to fabricate <br />Miniaturized, Efficient and Low -Cost Energy Storage Devices, such as super- capacitors and <br />batteries, utilizing a novel 3- dimensional (3 -D) carbon based film that had been developed in their <br />laboratory. Their research is expected to show that such 3 -D engineered carbon networks can <br />provide fast charging and discharging rates that can sustain millions of cycles. In addition, the <br />total surface area of these electrodes can be tuned with a pore, sized to fit the size of ions of the <br />36 -1 <br />