<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues:</div><div><br></div><div>I am writing to bring to your attention a funding opportunity from California Energy Commission, <b>Re: BRIDGE 2020 - Bringing Rapid Innovation Development to Green Energy</b>. There are five focus areas (see the table below), and it appears that all the focus areas are aligned with the research interests in the College of Engineering. I have also attached the GFO for your information.</div><div><br></div><div><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" title="Eligible Projects" summary="Groups and Eigible Technology Topics or Energy Applications" width="630" style="width:472.75pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Eligible Technology Topics
or Energy Applications</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Group 1:</b> Energy Efficiency</p>
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</span></span>Solid-state
lighting</p>
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</span></span>Non-vapor
compression cooling</p>
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</span></span>Enabling
technologies for advanced electric heat pumps <a name="m_4005178380634758015__Hlk46385056"></a></p>
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</span></span>Advanced
materials and coatings for fenestration and building envelopes</p>
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</span></span>Wastewater
treatment, recycling, reuse (including technologies such as electrochemical
systems)</p>
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</span></span>Energy efficient irrigation</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Group 2:</b> Energy Storage</p>
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</span></span>Enabling
technologies for lithium sulfur, lithium-metal, and advanced lithium-ion
batteries</p>
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</span></span>Flow
batteries</p>
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</span></span>Ultra-
or super-capacitors</p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a name="m_4005178380634758015__Hlk46385504"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>Non-lithium
electrochemical battery</a></p>
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</span></span>Enabling technologies for green hydrogen for
long duration energy storage (including technologies such as electrolyzers and fuel cells)</p>
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</span></span>Thermal storage</p>
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</span></span>Mechanical
energy storage (including technologies such as pumped hydro, compressed air,
gravitational, flywheel)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Group 3:</b> Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Advanced
Sensing</p>
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</span></span>Building
Automation </p>
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</span></span>Smart
Manufacturing and Industrial Processes</p>
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</span></span>Precision
Irrigation</p>
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</span></span>Virtual
Power Plants</p>
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</span></span>Climate
and Weather Risk Prediction to electric infrastructure and services</p>
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</span></span>Advanced
Sensors and Diagnostics</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Group 4:</b> Advanced Power Electronics/Power
Conditioning</p>
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</span></span>High-efficiency
plug-load devices</p>
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</span></span>Solid-state
distribution system components (transformers, inverters, circuit breakers)</p>
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</span></span>Ultra-fast
electric transportation charging</p>
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</span></span>High-power
electric drive for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle applications </p>
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</span></span>High-efficiency
computing</p>
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</span></span>Industrial
motors and equipment</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Group 5:</b> Zero- and Negative-Carbon Emission
Generation</p>
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</span></span>Geothermal<u></u></p>
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</span></span>Emerging
flexible and/or thin solar PV
materials (including technologies
such as perovskites, quantum dots, organic semiconductors)</p>
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</span></span>Energy
harvesting (including technologies
such as thermoelectric, thermionic, piezoelectric, thermophotovoltaic, in-conduit energy
generation)</p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><s><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></s>Environmentally beneficial waste-to-energy<s></s></p>
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</span></span>Enabling
technologies for zero-emission generation (geothermal, bioenergy)<u></u></p>
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