Super-GX: Scale Grid-responsive Supervisory Control for Multiple Commercial Buildings and EV Charging
Summary
SCH Number
2025030025
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Super-GX: Scale Grid-responsive Supervisory Control for Multiple Commercial Buildings and EV Charging
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/3/2025
Document Description
The proposed project focuses on demonstrating and scaling demand flexibility in large commercial building Distributed Energy Resources (DER). This project will use open-source mechanisms to prove the technology through multiple case studies and provide training, education, and resources at multiple levels (building owner, facility manager, building operator). The Super-GX technology leverages an industry standard Building Automation System and data analytics platform to provide visibility to building operators. The project will show the simplicity of adding a system integrator's supervisory control to integrate price signals and novel Demand Response algorithms to enable demand flexibility in large commercial buildings. This project will also reduce peak power and result in reduced emissions, which improves the air quality of the surrounding community while also providing community benefit and market adoption by developing and deploying operator and contractor training.
Contact Information
Name
Matthew Fung
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Mechanical Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Name
Jessie Brown
Agency Name
The Regents of the University of California, On behalf of the Berkeley Campus
Job Title
Contracts & Grants Officer
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Irvine, Torrance
Counties
Los Angeles, Orange
Regions
Citywide
Other Location Info
1919 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA
653 E Peltason Dr., Irvinve, CA
314 Engineering Quad, Irvine, CA
102 Gateway Quad, Irvine, CA
Social Science Plaza A - 211 Social Science Quad, Irvine, CA
605 Humanities Quad, Irvine, CA
836 Medical Sciences Quad, Irvine, CA
402 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, CA
Social Science Plaza B - 213 Social Science Quad, Irvine, CA
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, sec. 15301 provides that projects which consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, and which involve negligible or no expansion of existing or former use at the time of the lead agency’s determination, are categorically exempt from the provisions of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of the Berkeley campus is developing demand flexibility control software at the Regent of University of California, on behalf of the Berkeley campus and installing the demand flexibility software at existing facilities at the Regent of University of California, on behalf of the Irvine campus and the American Honda Motor Company campus by adding the software to the building energy systems. Up to 10 existing buildings will benefit from this demand flexibility software through enhanced building and electric vehicle charging load control to reduce energy demand and energy costs. This project will result in negligible or no expansion of use beyond that already existing. Therefore, the project falls within section 15301 and will not have a significant effect on the environment.
The project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; 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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