Westin High Efficiency Gas Heat Pump Project
Summary
- SCH Number
- 2020090225
- Lead Agency
- Energy Commission (California Energy Commission)
- Document Title
- Westin High Efficiency Gas Heat Pump Project
- Document Type
- NOE - Notice of Exemption
- Received
- Posted
- 9/14/2020
- Project Applicant
- The Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas)
- Document Description
- This project will deploy, test, and measure the benefits of gas heat pumps in a Los Angeles hotel (1 million square feet), in order to demonstrate a reduction of natural gas consumption of 35%, at a minimum, and to develop replicable approaches for other large commercial buildings. The benefits of this project, as related to the California Investor-Owned Utility natural gas ratepayers, are to increase grid resiliency, reduce financial burden for natural gas services, and improved safety by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- Contact Information
-
Abigail Jacob
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone : (916) 327-1314
Abigail.Jacob@energy.ca.gov
Location
- Cities
- Los Angeles
- Counties
- Los Angeles
- Regions
- Southern California
- Zip
- 90071
Notice of Exemption
- Exempt Status
- Categorical Exemption
- Type, Section or Code
- 15301, 15306
- Reasons for Exemption
- The activities funded by this agreement are exempt under Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301 because they involve minor energy efficiency retrofit alterations to the existing hotel (1 million square feet). The retrofits involve no expansion of existing use, with interior/exterior alterations to improve building performance. The activities funded by this agreement are exempt under Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301 because the purpose of installing natural gas fired heat pump systems in the hotel is to monitor and analyze the thermal performance and energy consumption. The project is strictly for information gathering purposes and involves basic data collection with no serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource.
Attachments
- Notice of Exemption
- CEQA-PIR-19-014-SoCalGas Jacob Signed PDF 136 K
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