Valley Children's Hospital-Resilient Healthcare Services
Summary
SCH Number
2025020677
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Valley Children's Hospital-Resilient Healthcare Services
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
2/20/2025
Document Description
The agreement will initially provide $4,328,572 for the first phase, consisting of preliminary engineering, detailed project planning, and commercial scale designs, of a future 3.3-Megawatt (MW)/33 Megawatt-hour (MWh) non-lithium-ion long duration energy storage (LDES) system to fully support the emergency power of the Valley Children's Hospital (VCH) in Madera, California. Additional environmental review must be completed, and further CEC approval is needed, before any further work may be initiated. The LDES system will be operated in concert with a commercial microgrid being funded by VCH featuring 2.2MW of fuel cell capacity, 1.2MW of solar photovoltaic, and 2.8 MWh LDES.
Contact Information
Name
Javier Flores
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Associate Electrical Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Ryan Bliss
Agency Name
Charge Bliss Inc/Faraday Microgrids
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Madera
Counties
Madera
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Childrens Blvd
Zip
93636
Other Location Info
9300 Valley Childrens Pl, Madera, CA 93636
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 section 15306 provides that basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. This first phase of this project, the only approved activities are strictly for information gather purposes, which may lead to an action the CEC might approve in the future.
The purpose of this first phase of the energy storage system is to complete the engineering and commercial-scale designs. This will include finalization of a Project Management Plan (PMP), a Risk Management Plan (RMP), an Intellectual Property Management Plan (IPMP), an initial financial model for the entire DOE 4-phase effort, and final site selection for the various technologies to be included in the LDES Demonstration. The approved is only to prepare all of these planning and preparation documents. Preparation of these documents is strictly for informational purposes and will not cause a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment.
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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