Category A: Product Development • Includes efforts to bring a new or improved product to market including business case development, product design, scale, and field testing, but not including earlier stage technical feasibility or proof of concept development. Technologies with a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) exceeding 3 are to be considered Product Development. Field testing or pilot deployments of a non-commercial, non-warrantied technology are considered Product Development. Note: Product Development projects are subject to NYSERDA’s recoupment terms described in Section VII. Category B: Demonstration • A project intended to increase sales or usage of a commercialized product already in the marketplace, with results used to generate objective performance information for customers or policymakers. At this stage, the product is available for commercial sale and warrantied. While incremental improvements may be incorporated based on the demonstration results, the final product design is essentially complete. Pilot deployments or other field demonstrations that will inform additional product development are considered Product Development and therefore subject to recoupment. Category C: Study • Projects under this category may explore effects and feasibility of new technology deployment, public policies, business models, planning methods, cost recovery models or other areas of analysis. Additionally, under this category are studies that assess the design and effectiveness of demonstrating new or under-utilized technologies at a New York site.
