The Regulatory Assistance Project
For General Operating Support
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Amount$3,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/15/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
The Regulatory Assistance Project provides technical assistance to utility and environmental regulators to facilitate the adoption of clean-energy policies. It is composed of former regulators, who leverage their expertise with advocates to promote sustainable low-carbon power sector development in the U.S., China, India, Europe, and Latin America. In Europe, its focus is developing power markets that reward emission-free generation. In China, it advises grantees and the government on reforming how clean power is brought onto the grid and reform of wholesale markets; and in India, they are working with regulators and grantees to strengthen the Indian energy boards and provide technical assistance on renewable energy integration.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.raponline.org
Address
50 State Street, Suite 3, Montpelier, VT, 05602, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) focuses on key policy areas to drive a more efficient and equitable decarbonized energy future and to ensure a sustainable and just transition. RAP develops solutions to the questions that regulators and other public, private, and non-government organization decision makers are asking (or should be asking), working to change the narrative and leverage partnerships to accelerate change. RAP’s four policy areas are (a) faster electrification of buildings and transportation, (b) faster phaseouts of gas infrastructure, (c) removing barriers to distributed energy, and (d) decarbonizing the electric grid. Across these four areas, RAP provides decision makers in the power sector with global best practices — and the expertise to implement them. (Substrategy: Electrification)
for executive transition support
This organizational effectiveness grant to the Regulatory Assistance Project is for the support of executive transitions, specifically hiring of the India and New Opportunities Director.
for technical assistance to states for 111D
In the US, the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) works behind the scenes with regulatory agencies to provide technical advice and training with an eye toward the ultimate goal of de-carbonizing the US electricity sector. This grant would allow them to build tools and provide training for regulators in target states to ensure that energy efficiency programs are tracked in ways that allow accurate accounting of their associated global warming emission reductions. RAP will work with these states and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure that best practices are used to incorporate energy efficiency measures into the set of flexible policies that "count" toward meeting the new EPA carbon standard for existing power plants. A draft standard is expected to be released in June, 2014.
