Enhancing Building Resilience and Affordability through Distributed Smart Home Panels with Portable Batteries: Packaged Solutions for Electrification Challenges
Summary
SCH Number
2025011026
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Enhancing Building Resilience and Affordability through Distributed Smart Home Panels with Portable Batteries: Packaged Solutions for Electrification Challenges
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
1/30/2025
Document Description
Project will install smart panels coupled with modular plug-in batteries at residential units of two multifamily housing developments in Humboldt County. The project will also demonstrate how existing electric panels can be outfitted with smart circuit controls to allow for flexible load management and automatic safe islanding. The technology being deployed will not trigger electric utility service upgrades.
Contact Information
Name
Tanner Kural
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Electric Generation System Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Prospect Silicon Valley
Agency Name
Prospect Silicon Valley
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Arcata
Counties
Humboldt
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
Boyd Rd
Zip
95521
Other Information
3101 Boyd Rd Arcata 95521
520 CA-96 N Willow Creek 95573
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, Section 15301 provides that the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing structures, facilities, mechanical equipment or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. This project will involve minor alteration of existing facilities by integrating existing electrical panels with adjacent smart electrical panels and installing on-site stationary batteries to flexibly manage onsite electrical load. The project will not have a significant impact on local air quality, noise, or traffic. For these reasons, the project will not have a significant effect on the environment and falls under the categorical exemption listed in 14 C.C.R. §15301.
The project will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies; 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.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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