Harnessing the Potential of AI in Industrial Refrigeration Systems
Summary
SCH Number
2024100709
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Harnessing the Potential of AI in Industrial Refrigeration Systems
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/17/2024
Document Description
The purpose of this Agreement is to fund a project that demonstrates and enhances the scalability of advanced energy efficiency, load reduction, and thermal load shifting technologies in industrial refrigerated warehouses through the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based control solutions.
Contact Information
Name
Rajesh Kapoor
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Mechanical Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Jurupa Valley
Counties
Riverside
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
De Forest Circ and Inland Ave
Zip
91752
State Highways
60, 15
Other Location Info
3251 De Forest Circle
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, § 15306 provides that a project that conducts basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation which will not result in major disturbances to an environmental resource are exempt from the provisions of CEQA. This project will demonstrate and enhance the scalability of advanced energy efficiency, load reduction, and thermal load shifting technologies in industrial refrigerated warehouses through the use of artificial intelligence-based control solutions. The activities funded by the agreement will not cause a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment because it only involves a software upgrade (ATLAS Platform) at the facility. There will be no structural changes to the facility.
This project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; does not involve 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.
For these reasons, the proposed work will not have any significant effect on the environment and falls under section 15306.
County Clerk
Sacramento
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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