SUPPLIES - Scaling Up Virtual Power Plants through Interoperable Energy Management Systems in K-12 Schools
Summary
SCH Number
2025021108
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
SUPPLIES - Scaling Up Virtual Power Plants through Interoperable Energy Management Systems in K-12 Schools
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
2/27/2025
Document Description
The project includes the installation of an energy management system software and potential software upgrades to the buildings' existing control systems (including the installation of service gateways and panel-level monitoring devices). The installed technologies aim to reduce the facilities peak energy use so the beneficiaries of the work will be the utility ratepayers included in the demonstrations.
Contact Information
Name
Dustin Davis
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Electric Generation System Specialist I
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Name
Agatha Kazdan
Agency Name
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Maywood
Counties
Los Angeles
Regions
Southern California
Cross Streets
Randolph St and Pine Ave
Zip
90270
Other Location Info
5800 King Ave
Maywood, CA 90270
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301
Reasons for Exemption
This project is exempt from CEQA under 22 CCR 15301. This exemption applies to this project since the work involves minor alterations of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, and which involve negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing. This project involves the installation of monitoring devices and associated hardware and software at two designated Los Angeles Unified School District sites that will optimize energy utilization related to temperature controls, lighting, and electric vehicle charging. For these reasons, the project will not have a significant environmental impact and is exempt under section 15301.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15306
Reasons for Exemption
This project is exempt from CEQA under 22 CCR 15306. This exemption applies to this project since the work involves basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource. This project involves data collection at the designated Los Angeles Unified School District sites for information gathering purposes to understand the performance and potential benefits of the control system deployed. For these reasons, the project will not have a significant environmental impact and is exempt under section 15306.
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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