Cal-Adapt: Data Explorer - Supporting California's Ambitious Energy Transformation
Summary
SCH Number
2025100588
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Cal-Adapt: Data Explorer - Supporting California's Ambitious Energy Transformation
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/14/2025
Document Description
The project will develop participant-informed, easy-to-use tools on the Cal-Adapt: Data Explorer, which is a web application that makes high-resolution climate projections and quality-controlled historical weather data publicly available to inform electricity sector resilience. This project addresses the gap between users' growing climate data literacy and their limited capacity to perform custom analysis by reimagining both the development process and user engagement strategy. By modernizing Cal-Adapt's tools, website, and workflows, the project will provide an unprecedented combination of intuitive guidance for newer users and flexible, policy-relevant insights for advanced users — helping communities and agencies overcome barriers to action in an increasingly complex energy and climate landscape.
Contact Information
Name
Mark Koenig
Agency Name
Eagle Rock Analytics, Inc.
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Name
Martine Schmidt-Poolman
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Commission Agreement Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Sacramento
Counties
Sacramento
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Between 11th Ave and 13th Ave
Zip
95814
Other Location Info
3669 57th St
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 consists of 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 is a computer-based project to develop Open Data Support for Climate Resilience in California's Electricity Sector, including the advanced development of the Cal-Adapt online interface.
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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