Advancing California's Electricity Resource Planning Tools to Assess and Improve Climate Resilience
Summary
SCH Number
2022070319
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Advancing California's Electricity Resource Planning Tools to Assess and Improve Climate Resilience
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
7/19/2022
Document Description
The grant agreement with Lumen Energy Strategy, LLC will fund innovations in the California’s electricity sector long-term resource planning model framework toward increasing climate resilience. The project will develop new inputs, assumptions, and tools to capture the impacts of climate change on electricity supply and demand of the electricity system in transition. This will include re-parameterization of tools used in currently used in California's electricity system planning to reflect historic and projected climate data, as well as creating a novel probabilistic loss-of-load resilience evaluation model. This latter model will assess different types of climate-linked resilience events at geographically granular level and be publicly available for stakeholder use.
Contact Information
Name
Mithra Moezzi
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Air Pollution Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Oakland
Counties
Alameda
Regions
San Francisco Bay Area
Cross Streets
Eastern Ave and Fair Oaks Blvd
Zip
94611
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15306
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, sec. 15306 provides that projects consisting of basic data collections, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource. This project involves research and modeling to assess and improve resilience of California’s electricity system in climate change. Research and model work will result in paper studies that will not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource.
This project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; does not involve unusual circumstances that might have a significant effect on the environment; will not result in damage to scenic resources within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; the project site is not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5, and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Therefore, none of the exceptions to categorical exemptions listed in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2 apply to this project and this project will not have a significant effect on the environment.
The activity is covered by the common sense exemption that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA.
Therefore, this project is exempt from CEQA for all the reasons discussed above.
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
Common Sense Exemption (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, §15061(b)(3))
Reasons for Exemption
The activity is covered by the common sense exemption that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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